Mrs. Bridge: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series) - Softcover

Connell, Evan S.

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9780816152063: Mrs. Bridge: A Novel (Thorndike Press Large Print Paperback Series)

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ISBN 10: 0816152063 ISBN 13: 9780816152063

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1991

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Wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge tries to cope with her dissastisfaction with an easy, though empty, life

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Review:

Mr. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. He tells her story, less in sketches than in paragraphs, and how it is done I only wish I knew, but he makes Mrs. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words.” Dorothy Parker, Esquire

Mrs. Bridge is a hell of a portrait . . . She’s as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time.” Wallace Stegner

For all their satire and dark implications, the novels of the Bridge family remain in the memory as triumphs of faultless realism. Mr. Connell's art is one of restraint and perfect mimicry.” The New York Times

About the Author:

Evan Connell's other novels include Mr. Bridge, The Diary of a Rapist, and The Connoisseur. He has also written short stories, collected in Saint Augustine's Pigeon, book-length poems (Notes From a Bottle Found On the Beach at Carmel and Points for a Compass Rose) and nonfiction (most recently the best-selling Son of the Morning Star). All of these titles are available from North Point Press.

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