Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century, influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections.
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