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Bridge of Sighs - Richard Russo
Bridge of Sighs
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Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.Louis Charles (“Lucy”) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for... show more
Six years after the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.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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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780375414954 (0375414959)
Publisher: Knopf
Pages no: 528
Edition language: English
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Mirkat Always Reading
Mirkat Always Reading rated it
4.0 Bridge of Sighs
As I got close to the end of this book, I knew that once I was done, I would miss it. Part of me wanted to slow down, but mostly I wanted to keep going. I ended up getting the Kindle version from my library's e-collection and supplementing my listening with a whole lot of reading. I enjoyed the ...
madbkwm
madbkwm rated it
First, I must say that I am a Russo fan. I like his nuance, I love his characters, and I think his prose runs from heartbreakingly acute observations of human folly to laugh out loud entertainment.In this novel, Russo follows the life of Lucy Lynch who never leaves the small town of Thomaston NY. ...
I, the booklover
I, the booklover rated it
4.0
Lembro-me que gostei do livro e fiquei com uma opinião bastante positiva acerca do livro e da escrita do autor. Do enredo, das personagens e da evolução das mesmas.Já não me recordo de todos os pormenores da história, mas fica uma boa lembrança.
Thewanderingjew
Thewanderingjew rated it
4.0 Bridge of Sighs
I liked the book but there were some times when it felt a bit disjointed because of interchanging time lines and abrupt locale changes. I would lose track of which character I was reading about and what some of the references meant. It is 500+ pages and I did not find it a quick read but certain une...
Ceridwen
Ceridwen rated it
It's possible that as a Midwesterner of somewhat Scandinavian extraction, I have an overly developed sensitivity to the language of self deprecation. I consider myself enthusiastic amateur in the practice of self-effacement; my Grandma Dory can both insult and vanish into false timidity in the same ...
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