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| Original Title: | Bridge of Sighs |
| ISBN: | 0375414959 (ISBN13: 9780375414954) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Louis Charles |
| Setting: | Long Island, New York(United States) Thomaston, New York(United States) |
Richard Russo
Hardcover | Pages: 528 pages Rating: 3.8 | 20429 Users | 2606 Reviews
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| Title | : | Bridge of Sighs |
| Author | : | Richard Russo |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 528 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf (first published September 25th 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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Bridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.
Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything they’d known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.
Bridge of Sighs is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences—often contrary, sometimes not—prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions.
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This is Russo's best book.He does a couple things in this book that are impressive on both a technical and human level.That Russo can lovingly create deep and human characters has been established in all of his novels. What's truly amazing about Bridge of Sighs is the amount of depth he gives to nearly every character in the book. At the beginning of the novel we see the story from the perspective of only a couple characters. During this time, many of the characters seem predictable and shallow,The book is structured a lot like Empire Falls. Its major theme is movers vs. stayers which I talked about in my review of Empire Falls so I copied that at the bottom of this review.The main character is the stayer who is happy as a clam running a convenience store across the street from where he has lived almost all his life. He is married to a local woman high school sweetheart. His mother had wanted him to finish college out of town, marry a girl from AWAY and get a real job outside this
I was a little apprehensive about this book after reading the press it received. I knew I would enjoy it, but I seeing that involved a middle-aged man reflecting on his life in a dying New England town, I feared a retread of Empire Falls.I couldn't have been more wrong. Many of the elements you would expect from Russo are there, the quiet politics of small towns, the relationship between parents and children and even the tainted river are all present. But Russo expands on these and builds them
I am glad i put this one on my reading list. It is beautifully written and has a lot to say about our daily lives and our relationships between parents and children. It covers three generations of a story about two boys growing up in the 1950-60s. Though a slow but dense plot, it has a lot of memorable characters with imperfect hearts living in an imperfect world.
The book is structured a lot like Empire Falls. Its major theme is movers vs. stayers which I talked about in my review of Empire Falls so I copied that at the bottom of this review.The main character is the stayer who is happy as a clam running a convenience store across the street from where he has lived almost all his life. He is married to a local woman high school sweetheart. His mother had wanted him to finish college out of town, marry a girl from AWAY and get a real job outside this
brilliant...absolutely brilliant...russo is very nearly the most important american novelist currently working...this book is all about the vertiginous...the deep disorientation and confusion that results from exposure to two very different points of view...this concept is explored in so many compelling ways through the juxtaposition of black and white, hope to despair, love to hate...the idea is made that much more complex by the notion of equivocation...the act of attempting to find and
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