The Bridge - Hardcover

Marlette, Doug

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060186305 ISBN 13: 9780060186302

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2001

Synopsis

Returing to his hometown of Eno, North Carolina, with his family after he is fired from his job in New York, newspaper cartoonist Pick Cantrell must face the ghosts of his past in the form of family matriarch and his childhood nemesis Mama Lucy, which leads him on a journey of self-discovery filled with dark secrets, family, love, and forgiveness. 40,000 first printing.

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Review:

?The fiction debut of a gifted and perceptive artist....Engaging.?Publishers Weekly ?Impressive...Engaging...[Marlette] is a talented novelist.?Raleigh News & Observer ?The Bridge [is] a well-written, engrossing tale....An impressive debut and powerful read.?Charlotte Observer ?Marlette's prose has a straightforward immediacy.?New York Times Book Review ?[The Bridge]...contains just the right mix of humor and dignity. Recommended.?Library Journal ?An exceptional first novel from a multi-talented author: gripping, exciting, moving, challenging, illuminating.?--Jay Hollenberger, Crossroads Market Bookstore, Houston, TX ?Marlette's fiction is as searing and brilliant as his visual art. The Bridge is an exceptional, eloquent book.?St. Petersburg Times ?Marlette masterfully evokes the fierce familial bonds that can either devastate or liberate the human spirit.? --Booklist ?..one of the best novels to come out of the South in recent years.?Rhett Jackson, THE HAPPY BOOKSELLER (for Book Sense 76) Marlette is one of the best new writers Ive read in a long time....[The Bridge] is absolutely compelling.ELLE Magazine (Reader's Prize) The Bridge [is] a great story--exuberant, proud, myth-challenging. A hugely ambitious novel.Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post Book World

"Marlette's fiction is as searing and brilliant as his visual art. The Bridge is an exceptional, eloquent book."--St. Petersburg Times

"The Bridge [is] a well-written, engrossing tale....An impressive debut and powerful read."--Charlotte Observer

"Marlette's prose has a straightforward immediacy."--New York Times Book Review

"Marlette masterfully evokes the fierce familial bonds that can either devastate or liberate the human spirit."----Booklist

"The fiction debut of a gifted and perceptive artist....Engaging."--Publishers Weekly

.".one of the best novels to come out of the South in recent years."--Rhett Jackson, THE HAPPY BOOKSELLER (for Book Sense 76)

"Impressive...Engaging...[Marlette] is a talented novelist."--Raleigh News & Observer

Marlette is one of the best new writers Ive read in a long time....[The Bridge] is absolutely compelling.--ELLE Magazine (Reader's Prize)

The Bridge [is] a great story--exuberant, proud, myth-challenging. A hugely ambitious novel.--Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post Book World

Synopsis:

Returning to his hometown of Eno, North Carolina, with his family after he is fired from his job in New York, newspaper cartoonist Pick Cantrell must face the ghosts of his past in the form of family matriarch Mama Lucy.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0060186305
• ISBN 13: 9780060186302
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400