6/22/2023 0 Comments Mrs bridge and mr bridge![]() ![]() There’s no real plot, apart from Mr Bridge and his family growing older, and the setting is purely domestic: think suburban America in the 1930s and 40s. ![]() Yes, there is an overarching narrative - that of one man’s life moving forward from the beginning of his marriage through to his children becoming adults and forging lives of their own - but it’s told in an episodic style in brief, self-contained chapters, each one almost a short story in their own right. Like its predecessor, Mr Bridge is not a conventional novel. Mr Bridge tells the story from the husband’s perspective. I read and reviewed Mrs Bridge in 2013 and loved the way it told the quietly understated story of one woman’s married life in Kansas City largely before the Second World War. Fiction – paperback Penguin Modern Classics 304 pages 2013.įirst published in 1969, Mr Bridge is a companion novel to Mrs Bridge, which was published a decade earlier. ![]()
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