6/28/2023 0 Comments Mrs bridge connell![]() What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true. ![]() 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. If you have already read it, that's wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is. One of those books that can suffuse a room with happiness when someone brings it up' Meg Wulitzer, The New York Times 'Intimate. ![]() Its tone - knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity - elevates it to its own kind of specialness. The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. ![]() In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. ![]() She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century. ![]()
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