Bridge is the debut novel by American author Evan S. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.Mrs. Bridge" is comprised of over 100 titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family. Bestselling author Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends. A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation.
Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. With a surgeon' s skill Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Connell's art is one of restraint and perfect mimicry.” The New York Times She’s as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time.” Wallace Stegnerįor all their satire and dark implications, the novels of the Bridge family remain in the memory as triumphs of faultless realism. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words.” Dorothy Parker, Esquire He tells her story, less in sketches than in paragraphs, and how it is done I only wish I knew, but he makes Mrs. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life.
What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true." Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. And if you haven’t read it, or perhaps have never even heard of it, well, that’s wonderful too, because you are still lucky enough to be able to read it for the first time. a variant of this exchange occurs to me: If you have already read it, that’s wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is.
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