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Mrs. Bridge : A Novel by Connell Evan S.; Salter James.; OverDrive, Inc is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Mrs. Bridge , Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon’s skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development underneath—the entropy of time and relationships lead Mrs. Bridge's three children and husband to recede into a remote silence, and she herself drifts further into doubt and confusion. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. The novel is comprised of vignettes, images, fragments of conversations, events—all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal isolation. In this special fiftieth anniversary edition, we are reminded once again why Mrs. Bridge has been hailed b...

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Author

Connell Evan S.; Salter James.; OverDrive, Inc

Publisher

Counterpoint Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781582438498

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (1,235 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14