The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S.Ĭonnell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. Bridge very concise and direct a lot longer book the bridge family painfully deadly dull. Connell is set, but Mrs Bridges life elapses without a mention of any of. 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. It is at this time and in this place that the novel Mrs Bridge (1959) by Evan S. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. With Paul Newman, Saundra McClain, Joanne Woodward, Margaret Welsh. Connell’s Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century.
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