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Mrs. Bridge, Evan Connell

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Evan Connell

In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. With a surgeon's skill, Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development underneath--the entropy of time and relationships lead Mrs. Bridge's three children and husband to recede into a remote silence, and she herself drifts further into doubt and confusion. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. The novel is comprised of vigne

1 Love and Marriage; 2 Children; 3 Preliminary Training; 4 Marmalade; 5 Christmas Basket; 6 Displaced Dummy; 7 Alice Jones; 8 Who Can Find the Caspian Sea?; 9 Of Ladies and Women; 10 Table Manners; 11 Alice Jones Again; 12 Agreeable Conversation; 13 Guest Towels; 14 Late for Dinner; 15 Holiday News; 16 A Matter of Taste; 17 Good-by Alice; 18 Never Speak to Strange Men; 19 Grace Barron; 20 What's Up, Señora Brid ge?; 21 The Leaco cks; 21 The Leacocks; 22 Victim of Circumstances; 23 Rock Fight; 24 Advanced Training; 25 Another World; 26 Tower; 27 Sentimental Moment; 28 Soft Gift29 Nothing Spectacular30 The Search for Love; 31 Treachery; 32 No Scenes in Church; 33 Powerful Vocabulary; 34 Tobacco Road; 35 One Summer Morning; 36 Growing Pains; 37 Maid from Madras; 35 Revolt of the Masses; 39 Minister's Book; 40 Lady Poet; 41 Voting; 42 Oaths and Pledges; 43 Another Victim of Circumstances; 44 Leda; 45 The Clock; 46 Countess Mariska; 47 Tea Leaves; 48 Liberal; 49 The Private World of Wilhelmand Susan; 50 Sir William and Sir Thomas; 51 The Low-pressure Salesman; 52 Second Lesson in Spanish; 53 Servant's Entrance; 54 Rumpy; 55 The Chrysler and the Comb; 56 No Evangelism57 Chaperon58 Good Night; 59 Suitor; 60 Ingrid; 61 Parking; 62 News of the Leacocks; 63 The Hat; 64 First Babies; 65 Who's Calling?; 66 Mademoiselle from Kansas City; 67 Ruth Goes to New York; 68 Tornado at the Club; 69 Non Capisco; 70 England; 71 French Restaurant; 72 Winged Victory; 73 Strangers in Paradise; 74 Intellectual Café; 75 Sidewalk Artist; 76 Telegram; 77 Beautiful Luggage; 78 Mirror, Mirror; 79 Psst!; 80 Peculiar Roman; 81 Change of Itinerary; 82 Inside Europe; 83 Progress, Madness, Defeat; 84 Robbery at the Heywood Duncans'; 85 No Questions; 86 Follow Me Home87 Jules, Niki, et al88 The Rich and the Poor; 89 Paquita de las Torres; 90 Extra-sensory Perception; 91 Frayed Cuffs; 92 Sex Education; 93 Words of Wisdom; 94 Very Gay Indeed; 95 Local Talent; 96 Exchange of Letters; 97 Frozen Fruit; 98 Reflections on Montaigne; 99 Gloves; 100 Marching with Dr. Foster; 101 Quo Vadis, Madame?; 102 Joseph Conrad; 103 Psychotherapy; 104 Pineapple Bread; 105 Carolyn's Engagement; 106 Present from Douglas; 107 Carolyn Marries; 108 Alice; 109 Winter; 110 Tuna Salad; 111 Old Acquaintance; 112 Home Again; 113 Mr. Bridge Adjourns; 114 Letter from a Buddhist115 All's Well116 Remembrance of Things Past; 117 Hello?; Afterword