description: In Mrs. Bridge, Evan Connell creates a portrait using the tesserae of everyday events and confrontations. Connell cuts away the middle-class security blanket of uniformity to expose the arrested development beneath. Mrs. Bridge recedes more and more into doubt and confusion as her three children and husband become more remote and silent. The raised evening newspaper becomes almost a fire screen to deflect any possible spark of conversation. A fly caught unawares in amber for eternity is no more immobilized and exposed than Mrs. Bridge, trapped in her garage as her novel ends. Set in Kansas City in the 1930s this companion volume to Mr. Bridge offers stunning portrayals of the lives of "solid citizens" of modern American society.
language: English
title: Mrs. Bridge
titlecomplete: Mrs. Bridge
genres: Classics, American, Adult Fiction, Novels, Family, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 6812
series: Mr. Bridge & Mrs. Bridge 
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books