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Evan S. Connell's Mrs Bridge is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century influencing books such as Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections. This edition has an introduction by Joshua Ferris author of Then We Came to the End and The Unnamed. 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. 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. In a series of comic telling vignettes Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality confusion futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. The companion novel Mr Bridge telling the story from the other side of the marriage is also available in Penguin Modern Classics with an introduction by Lionel Shriver author of We Need to Talk About Kevin. 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 an incredibly varied range of books and supported himself with odd jobs. In 2009 he was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement and in 2010 he was awarded a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Connell died in New Mexico on 10th January 2013 aged 88. How it is done I only wish I knew". (Dorothy Parker). "An exquisite mixture of sympathy and ironic detachment". (Independent)."

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