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Mrs. Bridge
Mrs Bridge
Author: Evan S. Connell, Jr.
Best-selling author Evan S. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Like Mr. Bridge, its counterpart, Mrs. Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed g...  more »
ISBN: 13281
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Fawcett Publications
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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reviewed Mrs. Bridge on + 20 more book reviews
Biting and sad... an American "Mrs. Dalloway."
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the book is 1 book of 2, and is from her view point. If you saw the moview with Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman this helps explain her personality.
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This was like going back in time, and not all the way back to the 40s and 50s of the story, but even just to my own childhood where my mother wore a cocktail dress in the afternoon and my father mixed martinis. This book brought back so many memories--like the days of local society pages that talked about people in one's own city who "seen about town" or "vacationed with the family" in some exotic place like Aspen. A time when boys got into "scuffles" instead of drive-bys. Connell managed to portray the good of that era while laying bare its sexism and racism. Mrs. Bridge is a sympathetic character despite herself. Also, I liked the vignette format. It was fresh.


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