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.'' - Dorothy Parker, Esquire The father is a conservative and traditional person who directs the family. 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. Bridge attempts to learn Spanish from a set of gramophone records, but quickly loses interest, and finds them, dusty, forgotten, and broken in a closet, years later. The prose itself is simple and straightforward. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. Connell gives us a series of short vignettes from the life of an upper-middle-class housewife in Kansas City. What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true.' - Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times In 117 brief episodes, it tells the story of an upper middle-class. There was also a handsome 1990 Merchant-Ivory film, Mr. Bridge is the debut novel by American author Evan S.

Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. Bridge focuses on the man behind the newspaper, but I’ve never entirely warmed to it. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. 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. Bridge (Kindle Edition) Published January 10th 2010 by Counterpoint.

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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