Mrs. Bridge: A Novel [Paperback]

Again and again. . . I find myself being aMrs. Bridgeevangelist, telling them that its a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true. Meg Wolitzer,The New York Times

InMrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. 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. In this special fiftieth anniversary edition, we are reminded once again whyMrs. Bridgehas been hailed by readers and critics alike as one of the greatest novels in American literature.Praise forMrs. Bridge

When I think about [Mrs. Bridge]. . . a variant of this exchange occurs to me: If you have already read it, thats wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is. And if you havent read it, or perhaps have never even heard of it, well, thats wonderful too, because you are still lucky enough to be able to read it for the first time. . . Again and again. . . I find myself being aMrs. Bridgeevangelist, telling them that its a perfect novel, and then pressing copies on them. . . What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true. —Meg Wolitzer,The New York Times

“Mr. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. 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, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words.” —Dorothy Pal3œ