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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
Published: Sep 2008
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Retail Price: $23.00
Pages: 688
Synopsis
Louis Charles Lynch (also known as Lucy) is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, New York, his entire life. He and Sarah, his wife of forty years, are about to embark on a vacation to Italy. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. Perhaps for this reason Lucy is writing the story of his town, his family, and his own life that makes up this rich and mesmerizing novel, interspersed with that of the native son who left so long ago and has never looked back.
Bridge of Sighs, from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, is a moving novel about small-town America that expands Russo's widely heralded achievement in ways both familiar and astonishing.
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Reviews
Bridge of Sighs is a wonderful book. Russo really captured life in upstate NY. The small towns who persevere despite the decline in industry. The people who leave and the people who stay and make good lives, despite the closed and crumbling factories. A great story with real people