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Author:
Richard Russo
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099458975
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EAN: 9780099458975
Published: 7 Aug 2008
Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to marry Sarah, also an artist; to run a small empire of convenience stores; and to tell their story. He's a good man, but Louis Charles Lynch, known as Lucy, isn't always as reliable as he seems, and even he secretly longs for what he can't have.
Now, at sixty years old, he and Sarah are about to travel to Venice, where Lucy's oldest friend and rival has traded life and family for a life far removed from Thomaston. The truth about why he left, and aboutthe ties that bind these three friends, is complex, heartbreaking and utterly compelling.
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In graceful, elegiac sentences...Pulitzer Prize-winning Russo exposes the dark heart of the American Dream
- Daily Mail
Richly evocative and beautifully wrought...a novel of great warmth, charm and intimacy...sharp, funny storytelling
- New York Times
No novelist working today can better capture the rhythms of small-town life, from its comic idiosyncrasies to its wicked undercurrents of gossip and prejudice
- Sunday Times
Russo's state-of-the-nation novel is a complex read, but totally engrossing
- Marie Claire
Beautifully done
- Guardian
Russo excels in this marvellous slice of Americana...Bridge of Sighs is a welcoming place to keep coming back to
- Herald
Unfolding slowly and in minute detail ... at its best when it evokes the rhythms of blue-collar family life in upstate New York in the 1950s and 60s
- Metro
Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for his fifth novel, Empire Falls. He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody’s Fool, Straight Man, That Old Cape Magic, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore’s Child. and the memoir, On Helwig Street. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson’s film Keeping Mum. He lives with his wife in Maine.
