Published by Counterpoint, Reprint edition 2005. 5 out of 5 stars Endearing vignettes from a family’s life. Son of the Morning Star is the nonfiction account of General Custer from the great American novelist Evan S. Bridge, a clean-cut Kansas City couple who find their traditional roles challenged by a changing world. 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's critically acclaimed novels featuring Mr. Connell was the author of eighteen books, including Francisco Goya, Deus Lo Volt!, Mrs. Connells Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of.
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. 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. 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. 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. The classic novel about a repressed uppermiddleclass husband in the American Midwest, by a New York Times bestselling and Man Booker Prize winning author.
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