Published by Counterpoint, Reprint edition 2005. He received numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Connells Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of. Connell was the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt!, Mrs. Bridge, this novel is a classic portrait of a man, a marriage, and the manners and mores of a particular social class in the first half of twentieth–century America. Connell, already revered as a writer’s writer, is an indispensable maker of American literature. Elegantly and without jargon, Paul persuades us that Evan S. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of respectability that cloaks the void within-not the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household. Thus, too, Connell’s ‘quaint mania,’ as he called his devotion to writing, inspires every page of Steve Paul’s thorough, witty biography. Walter Bridge is an ambitious Kansas City lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something-even when what they need is more of him and less of his money.
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