Bridge of sighs

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641 pages

English language

Published Dec. 27, 2008 by Vintage Contemporaries.

ISBN:
978-1-4000-3090-3
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OCLC Number:
240201586

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5 stars (2 reviews)

Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town, his family, and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel, interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked back.Bridge of Sighs, from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, is a moving novel about small-town America that expands Russo's widely heralded achievement in ways both familiar and astonishing.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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reviewed Bridge of sighs by Richard Russo

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5 stars

My second Russo novel (after Empire Falls), and certainly not a disappointment. Russo has a way of peeling away the lies his characters tell themselves and each other to reveal their inner thoughts and motives (often through the insight of other characters) to lay bare the insecurities and emotions that are at the heart of the matter. Because these insecurities and emotions are (I suspect) common, the reader can't help but have his/her own lies and rationalizations peeled away along with those of the characters.

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Subjects

  • City and town life -- Fiction.
  • Friendship -- Fiction.
  • Lifestyles -- Fiction.
  • New York (State) -- Fiction.
  • Italy -- Fiction.