Bridge of Sighs

Name: Bridge of Sighs
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Richard Russo
ISBN: 9780099458975

Richard Russo

07/08/2008
Vintage

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Bridge of Sighs par Richard Russo

Résumé

Présentation de l'éditeur Two boys grow up in Thomaston, upstate New York. One of them gets away to Italy, where he becomes a painter. The other stays to marry Sarah, also an artist; to run a small empire of convenience stores; and to tell their story. He's a good man, but Louis Charles Lynch, known as Lucy, isn't always as reliable as he seems, and even he secretly longs for what he can't have.Now, at sixty years old, he and Sarah are about to travel to Venice, where Lucy's oldest friend and rival has traded life and family for a life far removed from Thomaston. The truth about why he left, and aboutthe ties that bind these three friends, is complex, heartbreaking and utterly compelling. Revue de presse In graceful, elegiac sentences...Pulitzer Prize-winning Russo exposes the dark heart of the American Dream ― Daily Mail Richly evocative and beautifully wrought...a novel of great warmth, charm and intimacy...sharp, funny storytelling ― New York Times No novelist working today can better capture the rhythms of small-town life, from its comic idiosyncrasies to its wicked undercurrents of gossip and prejudice ― Sunday Times Russo's state-of-the-nation novel is a complex read, but totally engrossing ― Marie Claire Beautifully done -- DJ Taylor ― Guardian Biographie de l'auteur Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his fifth novel Empire Falls (made into a TV series starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Helen Hunt). He is also the author of Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool , Straight Man and Bridge of Sighs, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore's Child. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film Keeping Mum, with Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. He has collaborated with Robert Brenton on the screenplays for Nobody's Fool (filmed with Paul Newman) and Twilight. He lives with his wife in Maine and in Boston.