Evan S. Connell

Mrs Bridge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time with shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 157g
• ISBN-13: 9780141198651
• ISBN-10: 0141198656
• Artikelnr.: 35038711

Autorenporträt

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 and supported himself with odd jobs. His incredibly varied books range from long experimental poems to a best-selling biography of General Custer, but he will be remembered above all for his two masterpieces about middle-class, suburban American life: Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge. In 2009 he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement, and in 2010he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He died in New Mexico in 2013.

Rezensionen

If you have already read it, that's wonderful, for chances are you love it too, and know how brilliant it is. And if you haven't read it, or perhaps have never even heard of it, well, that's wonderful too, because you are still lucky enough to be able to read it for the first time ... A perfect novel ... What writing! Economical, piquant, beautiful, true .... Mrs Bridge is one of those books that can suffuse a room with happiness when someone brings it up Meg Wolitzter The New York Times