Status
Available
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Series
Genres
Publication
Counterpoint (2010), Edition: Anniversary, 256 pages
Description
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon's skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development underneath--the entropy of time and relationships lead Mrs. Bridge's three children and husband to recede into a remote silence, and she herself drifts further into doubt and confusion. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. The novel is comprised of vigne.
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Awards
Original language
English
Original publication date
1959
Physical description
7.97 inches
ISBN
1582435685 / 9781582435688
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LCC
PS3553.O5 M72