Bridge of Sighs - Rilegato

Russo, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0701175974 ISBN 13: 9780701175979

Casa editrice: Chatto & Windus, 2007

Riassunto

A major new novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls, this story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, has all the glorious heart we have come to expect from a Russo novel but with a tough new edge and a darker seam of glittering secrets.

Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, is sixty years old and has lived in Thomaston, upstate New York, his entire life, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty years.Like his own father a determined optimist, Lucy has had plenty of reasons not to be but has withstood them all, including his mother, still indomitably alive. Her husband's death dealt the Lynches another setback after they'd moved from the wrong side of the tracks to the right one, yet her brains and that Lynch optimism provided them with 'an empire' of convenience stores that Lucy is now passing to his son.

But, as he says, 'the well-established rhythms of our adult lives will soon be interrupted most violently' for he and Sarah are about to leave home and travel to Rome, Florence and Venice, where his oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life far removed from Thomaston. This is classic Russo, but with a new twist in the character of a painter who gladly traded his family and past away for a life in Europe. The destinies of these three soon-to-be-reunited friends are forged in their hometown in ways that are constantly surprising and utterly revealing.

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Descrizione del libro:

A big new American novel for our times, by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls, about innocence and cynicism, optimism and despair, mining the secrets of society and the human heart in a rich, dramatic and big-hearted story of families and growing up, and the secrets which define a community - rich, sinuous and surprising, with new and darker undercurrents.

L'autore:

Richard Russo won a Pulitzer Prize for his previous novel Empire Falls, which has been made into an HBO 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 and Straight Man, as well as a collection of stories, The Whore's Child. He has collaborated with Robert Benton on the screenplays for Nobody's Fool and Twilight. His original screenplay is the basis for Rowan Atkinson's film Keeping Mum, with Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas. He lives in Maine.

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• Editore: Chatto & Windus
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0701175974
• ISBN 13: 9780701175979
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 544