Mrs Bridge

Resumen del libro

With an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came To The End and The Unnamed We will publish companion novel Mr Bridge (which tells the story from the other side of the marriage) in early 2013 The novel was made into a 1990 Merchant Ivory film - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. 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. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, Mrs Bridge deserves its place as one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century.