![]() ![]() ![]() One of those books that can suffuse a room with happiness when someone brings it up' Meg Wulitzer, The New York Times'Intimate. Its tone - knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity - elevates it to its own kind of specialness. The companion novel Mr Bridge, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'A perfect novel. ![]() Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. Bobby Sue Henshaw One of Janice Avery ’s friends and a school bully. Wilma Dean One of Janice Avery ’s friends and a school bully. Wanda Kay Moore A snotty girl at school who loves being a teacher’s pet. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. The former fastest runner in the fifth grade, whose legacy Jess is determined to live up to. 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. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century. ![]()
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