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From Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette comes the captivating story of Pick Cantrell, a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. In the grip of a midlife meltdown, Pick returns with his wife and son to a small North Carolina town, where he confronts the ghosts of his past in the form of the family matriarch and his boyhood nemesis, Mama Lucy. What follows is an extraordinary story within a story, as Pick uncovers startling truths about himself and about the role his grandmother played in the tragic General Textile Strike Of 1934
A novel about family, love, and forgiveness, The Bridge explores how much we ever really know about others, and most important, about ourselves.
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"Marlette's fiction is as searing and brilliant as his visual art. The Bridge is an exceptional, eloquent book."--St. Petersburg Times
"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
"Impressive...Engaging...[Marlette] is a talented novelist."--Raleigh News & Observer
The Bridge [is] a great story--exuberant, proud, myth-challenging. A hugely ambitious novel.--Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post Book World
"An exceptional first novel from a multi-talented author: gripping, exciting, moving, challenging, illuminating."----Jay Hollenberger, Crossroads Market Bookstore, Houston, TX
"[The Bridge]...contains just the right mix of humor and dignity. Recommended."--Library Journal
"The Bridge [is] a well-written, engrossing tale....An impressive debut and powerful read."--Charlotte Observer
"The fiction debut of a gifted and perceptive artist....Engaging."--Publishers Weekly
Marlette is one of the best new writers Ive read in a long time....[The Bridge] is absolutely compelling.--ELLE Magazine (Reader's Prize)
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"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
"Impressive...Engaging...[Marlette] is a talented novelist."--Raleigh News & Observer
The Bridge [is] a great story--exuberant, proud, myth-challenging. A hugely ambitious novel.--Valerie Sayers, The Washington Post Book World
"An exceptional first novel from a multi-talented author: gripping, exciting, moving, challenging, illuminating."----Jay Hollenberger, Crossroads Market Bookstore, Houston, TX
"[The Bridge]...contains just the right mix of humor and dignity. Recommended."--Library Journal
"The Bridge [is] a well-written, engrossing tale....An impressive debut and powerful read."--Charlotte Observer
"The fiction debut of a gifted and perceptive artist....Engaging."--Publishers Weekly
Marlette is one of the best new writers Ive read in a long time....[The Bridge] is absolutely compelling.--ELLE Magazine (Reader's Prize)
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.
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- Publication date2022
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- ISBN 13 9780060505219
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