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Suburban ennui distilled through poignant 1950s lens.

"Mrs Bridge" is a quiet yet striking portrait of mid-century American life, depicting the quiet desperation often hiding behind a veneer of prosperity. The novel’s subdued humor and sharp insights into the societal constraints of the time make it a compelling read for anyone interested in the intricate dance of social norms and personal fulfillment. Its relevance persists, echoing the timeless quest for meaning in a life well-curated but perhaps not well-lived.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1960)
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ISBN: 9780141198651
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Date of Publication: 2012-06-07
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Classics, Literature
Goodreads rating: 4.07
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Evan S. 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. Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. 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. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics. Evan S. Connell was born in Kansas City in 1924. He served in the US navy in the second world war and lived briefly in Paris before returning to the US, where he wrote an incredibly varied range of books and supported himself with odd jobs. In 2009, he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2010, he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Connell died in New Mexico on 10th January 201
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Suburban ennui distilled through poignant 1950s lens.

"Mrs Bridge" is a quiet yet striking portrait of mid-century American life, depicting the quiet desperation often hiding behind a veneer of prosperity. The novel’s subdued humor and sharp insights into the societal constraints of the time make it a compelling read for anyone interested in the intricate dance of social norms and personal fulfillment. Its relevance persists, echoing the timeless quest for meaning in a life well-curated but perhaps not well-lived.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (1960)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.