{"product_id":"mrs-bridge-penguin-modern-classics","title":"Mrs Bridge (Penguin Modern Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvan S. Connell's \u003ci\u003eMrs Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary tragicomic portrayal of suburban life and one of the classic American novels of the twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs Bridge, an unremarkable and conservative housewife in Kansas City, has three children and a kindly lawyer husband. She spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to be pleasant, clean and have nice manners. And yet she finds modern life increasingly baffling, her children aren't growing up into the people she expected, and sometimes she has the vague disquieting sensation that all is not well in her life. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion, futility and even terror at the heart of a life of plenty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe companion novel \u003ci\u003eMr Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, telling the story from the other side of the marriage, is also available in Penguin Modern Classics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A perfect novel ... Its tone - knowing, droll, plaintive, shuttling rapidly between pain and hilarity - elevates it to its own kind of specialness ... One of those books that can suffuse a room with happiness when someone brings it up' Meg Wulitzer, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Intimate ... affecting ... a very funny book' Joshua Ferris\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141198651\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Connell, Evan S.","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £754.80","offer_id":47970522103985,"sku":"SB-0141198656-C3","price":754.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/mrs-bridge-penguin-modern-classics","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}