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. This was a time when the Great Depression was biting even though you. The work was set in the time from the 1920s up to the Second World War. The latter works long hours at his Kansas City office leaving his wife and three children feeling abandoned. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. Bridge and her successful lawyer husband. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. 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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