· Overlooked classics of American literature: Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell. This funny and sensitive book brings to life an underrepresented character – Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. · Review of ‘Mrs Bridge’ by Evan S Connell. 20/12/ nsford Leave a comment. This book is one of my favourite reads this year. It’s one of those novels which you can’t help but keep turning the pages, not because there is much of a plot, but because the writing style is addictive. Even more remarkably for a modern classic, it was a debut novel, which first began as a short www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 2 mins. First published in , Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell is set in Kansas City in the s. The central figure is India Bridge, an upper middle-class suburban housewife. Her character is revealed in a series of short vignettes, episodes, and conversations, some of which are laugh- out-loud funny/5.
― Evan S. Connell, quote from Mrs. Bridge "The years were falling over like ducks in a shooting gallery, and it seemed to Mr. Bridge that he had scarcely taken aim at one when it disappeared." "I wouldn't have missed it for the world," said Mrs. Bridge, smiling all around, "and I feel awfully lucky. Mrs. Bridge - Evan S. Connell () This is the story of an American housewife in Kansas City in the early-mid-twentieth century, living her pre-formed life of quiet desperation and doing her very best to fulfill the requirements of being a "good" wife and mother. If I went ahead and described the plot to you, it would seem to be. Evan S. Connell's "Mrs. Bridge" is one of the truly outstanding works of Twentieth century American literature, a restrained, yet brilliantly wrought fictional portrait of upper middle class married life in the decades surrounding World War II. Connell tells the story of India Bridge in short chapters, each a spare vignette of her enervated.
Evan S. Connell, over the last half century, has published nineteen books of fiction, poetry, and essays, several of which—including the best-sellers Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge, and the erudite, anecdotal, and totally unique nonfiction book Son of the Morning Star—are American classics. I've admired his work for many years, since first reading Diary of a Rapist, and was happy for a chance to interview him for Bookforum. The central focus of Evan Connell’s Mrs. Bridge is the protagonist’s uncertainty about her own identity and about the meaning and purpose of her life. The first sentences of the book, linked. The novel is an extended character study, and in understanding the desperately conforming Mrs. Bridge, whose first name is India (“It seemed to her that her parents must have been thinking of.
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