She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time. Bridge (1969), a companion volume which covers some but not all of the same material, deserve to be Connell’s best-known works because of the skill. In 117 brief episodes, it tells the story of an upper middle-class. Connell(Author) 4.2 out of 5 stars581 ratings See all formats and editions Sorry, there was a problem loading this page. Bridge is the debut novel by American author Evan S.

See search resultsfor this author Evan S. Connell Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words.'' - Dorothy Parker, Esquire Bridge: A Novel Paperback Septemby Evan S. Bridge (1969) are bittersweet, gently satirical portraits of a conventional, unimaginative upper middle-class couple living in Kansas City from the 1920s to the 1940s. He tells her story, less in sketches than in paragraphs, and how it is done I only wish I knew, but he makes Mrs. Connell writes of this woman without patronage, without snickers, without, indeed, any comment whatever on what he sets down of her life. 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. 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.

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.

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