Bridge of Sighs: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Author(s):
Richard Russo
Label: Vintage
Publisher(s):
Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Binding: Paperback
List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $10.17
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Similar Items:
Run: A Novel
The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Away: A Novel
Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Loving Frank: A Novel
The Abstinence Teacher (Reading Group Gold)
On Chesil Beach
Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
Exit Ghost (Vintage International)
Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town, his family, and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel, interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked back.
Bridge of Sighs, from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, is a moving novel about small-town America that expands Russo's widely heralded achievement in ways both familiar and astonishing.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Richard Russo's first book since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Bridge of Sighs is a typically stunning portrait of three small town families struggling--like the town itself--to strike a balance between obsessively embracing their own history or shunning it entirely, with devastating consequences along both paths. Bridge of Sighs is pure Russo: funny, heartbreaking, and ringing completely true. --Jon Foro
Customer Reviews
Bridge of Sighs
Bridge of Sighs: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Once again Richard Russo works his magic here, creating a world and peopling it with characters who are so alive that it's sometimes painful to feel what they are feeling. More melancholy than "Nobody's Fool" or "Empire Falls," but worth every minute.
I loved this book
This book was so good that I think it has ruined me for other books. It may be the best book I have ever read.
Haunting
As a Richard Russo fan (I've read everything he's written), I was dumbfounded by this book at times.
Unlike Empire Falls, the Bridge of Sighs takes long, rambling detours through story and emotion. I found myself at times saying, "Okay, already. Get on with it." I also found myself absolutely intrigued by Russo's descriptions of the characters' interior lives and his incisive connections between the seemingly disconnected and mundane goings on in everyone's lives.
I finished the book a week ago but I'm still haunted. An amazing book.
Russo keeps the reader on his toes by going from first-person present tense, first-person past tense, third-person present tense, and third-person past tense. And he intertwines them closely enough at times that I had to stop and think about where I was in time.
A fabulous read. Highly recommended.
I loved this book
This is the best book I have read in a long time. I think I liked it better than "Empire Falls." It is a book that leaves you examining the pattern on the carpet of your own life.
boring
very slow, I stopped several times and forced myself to come back to it. Largely unbelievable. A terrible picture of the mother/grandmother (Tessa)who can do nothing right, and central parts for these backward men (3 generations)who can do nothing wrong. Very sexist, women are to be suspected of almost everything. A dreadful saga!
PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT SOME OF THE CONTENT THAT WE MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU THROUGH THIS APPLICATION COMES FROM AMAZON WEB SERVICES. ALL SUCH CONTENT IS PROVIDED TO YOU "AS IS." THIS CONTENT AND YOUR USE OF IT ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND/OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME.
Powered by PNAmazon © 2003-2007 ttgapers.com
