In Mr Bridge, Evan S. Connell gives us a moving, satirical and poetic portrayal of a man who cannot escape his limitations, and a couple growing old together but unable, ultimately, to connect.
Evan S. Connell was born in Kansas City in 1924. He served in the US navy in the Second World War and lived briefly in Paris before returning to the US, where he wrote and supported himself with odd jobs. His incredibly varied books range from long experimental poems to a best-selling biography of General Custer, but he will be remembered above all for his two masterpieces about middle-class, suburban American life- Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge. In 2009 he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2010he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He died in New Mexico in 2013.
An exquisite tragedy in miniature
*Lionel Shriver*
Mr Bridge is a tour-de-force of contemporary American realism, a
beautiful work of fiction
*Life*
With a delicate and subtle irony, Mr Connell shows us, first from
her, then from his point of view, the little daily dramas of this
ordinary family. It is very, very funny, often moving and sad, and
written with an uncompromising realism that one rarely comes
across. To me the Bridges were a revelation: I cannot recommend
them too highly
*Daily Telegraph*
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge are forever human, forever vulnerable, forever
pitiable. In spare, whimsical, ironic prose, Connell exposes each
and every one of their wrinkles and then, in the end, offers them
to us as human beings to be cherished
*Jonathan Yardley*
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