5/8/2023 0 Comments Mrs bridge book![]() ![]() She's as real and as pathetic and as sad as any character I have read in a long time. Bridge, her husband and her children and her neighbors understandable and, because understandable, moving, in his few taut words."" - Dorothy Parker, Esquire 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 was the story of a lawyer, meandering through his life of industriousness, indifference, and conservatism. 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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