Mr Bridge

Walter Bridge husband to India and father to three is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his prejudice selfdoubts and dreary existence his Christmas gifts to the family are stock certificates which he immediately takes back to manage on their behalf yet he is also kind and charitable loving his wife while never able to tell her so. In Mr Bridge Evan S. Connell gives us a moving satirical and poetic portrayal of a man who cannot escape his limitations and a couple growing old together but unable ultimately to connect. With an Introduction by Lionel Shriver A tour de force of contemporary American realism a beautiful work of fiction. Life To me the Bridges were a revelation I cannot recommend them too highly. Daily Telegraph