Bridge of Sighs

Resumen del libro

Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, marries his childhood sweetheart and settles down to run a small empire of convenience stores. He's a good man, but he isn't always as reliable as he seems, and secretly longs for what he can't have His best friend Bobby escapes to Italy and becomes an artist, trading in past and family for a life far removed from Thomaston.

Now, at sixty years old, Lucy and his wife Sarah are about to relinquish their usual quiet routine and travel to Venice to find Bobby, though they have not heard from him for many years. The truth about why he left, and about the ties that bind these three friends, is intricate and heartbreaking.

Biografía del autor

Richard Russo ha escrito las novelas Mohawk, Alto riesgo, y Ni un pelo de tonto, la cual ha sido llevada al cine y protagonizada por Paul Newman. Sus últimas novelas son Straight Man y Empire Falls con la que ha ganado el Premio Pulitzer 2002.