She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time. A portrayal of a safe, desperate, middle class American marriage, as seen from both sides. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words."" - Dorothy Parker, Esquire Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century. previous 1 2 next sort by previous 1 2 next Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 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 Average rating 4.02 13,442 ratings 1,688 reviews shelved 38,211 times Showing 30 distinct works. 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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