One of my favorite books ever, its a precise, delicate. She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time. Zofia Smardz: Welcome to the Washington Post Book Club discussion of Mrs. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words.'' - Dorothy Parker, Esquire He tells her story, less in sketches than in paragraphs, and how it is done I only wish I knew, but he makes Mrs. Bridge Directed by James Ivory written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novels 'Mr. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. His first work, The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories, was published in 1957. What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true.' - Meg Wolitzer, The New York Times Bridge evangelist, telling them that it’s a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. His wife is sheltered, naive, and repressed. He sees no reason why the two should mingle. His life is neatly halved, work and family. Told in vignette form, his prides and his prejudices are shown. Bridge, a wealthy attorney in Kansas City circa 1930. And if you haven’t read it, or perhaps have never even heard of it, well, that’s wonderful too, because you are still lucky enough to be able to read it for the first time. Glimpses of the underpinnings of everyday life of one Mr. a variant of this exchange occurs to me: If you have already read it, that’s wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is. The novel is comprised of vignettes, images, fragments of conversations, eventsall 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.

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