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Bridge of Sighs Audio Book
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Bridge of Sighs
Author:
Richard Russo
Reader: Arthur Morey
A trip to Italy becomes a search for the meaning of friendship. A husband hopes to untangle the nature of his relationship with a painter he knew years ago, now exiled in Europe. And we learn about this complex expatriate and his motives – in a novel coursing with contradictions and small-town rhythms. By the author of Empire Falls. A New York Times Notable book. "Humorous, insightful, and haunting, Morey's navigating of this portrait of Main Street Americais both elegant and sublime."—AudioFile
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Available Audio Book Editions:
| M9R889 |
UNABRIDGED |
Audio CDs ( 21 ) |
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Publish Date: 09/24/2007
ISBN: 9780739318898
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| MP1237 |
Unabridged |
Playaway (1) |
$74.99 |
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Synopsis:
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After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indominable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates. Simultaneous.
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Book Reviews:
| "Small-town lives are elevated to big-time triumph by Russo's prose; there's laughter and tragedy, but no condescension. Dickens would have applauded." |
| Entertainment Weekly - Stephen King (12/28/2007) |
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| "[Richard Russo] is a sentimental, humorous, ruminative, occasionally satirical, and extremely unhurried writer....His drama is modestly scaled, but his anthill is convincingly alive with ants." |
| New Yorker - Louis Menand (10/15/2007) |
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Author Bio:
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Richard Russo grew up in Gloversville, New York, the small, working-class town that has provided the setting for several of his books. His parents separated when he was small, and he lived with his mother but worked construction jobs with his father during vacations from the University of Arizona, where he received his B.A. He also has a Ph.D., and taught at universities in Illinois and Connecticut, then at Colby College in Maine. He began writing fiction when he realized he would rather write his own novels than analyze other people's and, in 1996, was able to quit teaching to write full time. In addition to novels, Russo has also written movie screenplays. Russo was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for his novel EMPIRE FALLS.
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