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.
Connell was the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt!, Mrs. Bridge has been hailed by readers and critics alike as one of the greatest novels in American literature. In this special fiftieth anniversary edition, we are reminded once again why Mrs.
The novel is comprised of vignettes, images, fragments of conversations, events-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal isolation. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. Connell (Author) 12 ratings See all formats and editions Paperback 10.59 11 Used from 10.59 1 New from 32.27 Best-selling author Evan S. Bridge has been hailed by readers and critics alike as one of the greatest novels in American literature.In Mrs. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. economical, piquant, beautiful, true” that chronicles the everyday lives of a well-to-do family in 1930s Kansas through the eyes of its remarkable matriarch (Meg Wolitzer, New York Times –bestselling author of The Female Persuasion ) Bridge (1990), starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward
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