Mr Bridge
  • Published: 7 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141198668
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00

Mr Bridge

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The brilliant, dark companion novel to Mrs Bridge, now reissued in the Penguin Modern Classics livery

Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his narrow prejudices and complacent outlook, yet he is also troubled by dark undercurrents of desire and a yearning for something forever out of his reach. In Mr Bridge, Evan S. Connell gives us a poignant, satirical and poetic portrayal of a man who cannot escape his limitations and of a couple growing old together but unable, ultimately, to connect.
  • Published: 7 February 2019
  • ISBN: 9780141198668
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Evan S. Connell

Evan S. Connell, recognised as one of the most important voices in American literature, was the author of seventeen books, including Mrs Bridge, Mr Bridge and the bestselling Son of the Morning Star, his account of Custer's final battle at the Little Big Horn, and his book about the crusades, Deus lo Volt! In 2009 he was nominated for the Man Booker international prize. He lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico and died in 2010, aged 88.

Also by Evan S. Connell

Mr Bridge
Mrs Bridge
Francisco Goya
The White Lantern And Other Pursuits
El Dorado And Other Pursuits
Deus Lo Volt!
Son Of The Morning Star
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Praise for Mr Bridge

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 Bridge is a tour-de-force of contemporary American realism, a beautiful work of fiction

Life

An exquisite tragedy in miniature

Lionel Shriver

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