Mrs Bridge

Mrs Bridge is a housewife and mother in Kansas City, bringing up her three children and making a home for her husband, Walter. She shops, plays bridge and goes to the country club, but as time passes she finds that her life is unfulfilling and she cannot even ask herself the questions that trouble her. And while the children grow up and become strangers to her, Mrs Bridge - kind yet bigoted, rich yet simple -is left uncertain of her place in the world. In a series of comical, subtle and shattering vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the contradictions, narrow margins and fear that can live in a life of comfort. With an Introduction by Joshua Ferris 'Very, very funny, often moving and sad, and written with an uncompromising realism that one rarely comes across' Daily Telegraph 'For all their satire and dark implications, the novels of the Bridge family remain in the memory as triumphs of faultless realism' The New York Times