She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words. Bridge gave her on her forty-seventh birthday was a size too long and she drove it as cautiously as she might have driven a locomotive. Mrs Bridge is a thoroughgoing critique of the unexamined life, and a valuable precursor to the generation of novels that sought to diagnose the central malady of mid-century American life: what. The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. Bridge, began as a short story in the Fall 1955 issue of The Paris Review. 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 Jump to Edit Summaries Set during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children. 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. Connell 4.06 6,552 ratings927 reviews Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.

Bridge evangelist, telling them that it's a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. Bridge was the story of a lawyer, meandering through his life of industriousness, indifference, and conservatism. 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. It adopts a highly original way of telling its story, broken down into 117 vignettes, some barely a page long, such as Mrs Bridge’s comic difficulties in parking her car. 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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