November Sunday 1957. The USSR launches "Sputnik-2" with the dog Laika on board, and the whole world is following the news. The Becketts from American Newark are also aware of the latest events. But on this day, their seemingly ordinary...
life begins to crack unnoticed. The husband, Virgil, goes to church with his sons, then heads to play golf with colleagues. The strangeness begins when Kathleen, once a promising tennis player, now a mother and housewife, refuses to go to church. She takes out an old swimsuit and heads to the pool, from which she refuses to leave until evening.
1. "The Bridge" is an intimate intellectual bestseller that will appeal to fans of Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, Anne Tyler, and John Williams. 2. The events of the book unfold over the course of one day, but it becomes fateful in the lives of the characters. The novel touches on eternal questions of love and marriage, desires and duty, unfulfilled hopes, and the search for one's place in the world. 3. "The Bridge" was nominated for the National Book Award and was also listed among the best books of the year by Time and The Washington Post.
November Sunday 1957. The USSR launches "Sputnik-2" with the dog Laika on board, and the whole world is following the news. The Becketts from American Newark are also aware of the latest events. But on this day, their seemingly ordinary life begins to crack unnoticed. The husband, Virgil, goes to church with his sons, then heads to play golf with colleagues. The strangeness begins when Kathleen, once a promising tennis player, now a mother and housewife, refuses to go to church. She takes out an old swimsuit and heads to the pool, from which she refuses to leave until evening.
1. "The Bridge" is an intimate intellectual bestseller that will appeal to fans of Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, Anne Tyler, and John Williams.
2. The events of the book unfold over the course of one day, but it becomes fateful in the lives of the characters. The novel touches on eternal questions of love and marriage, desires and duty, unfulfilled hopes, and the search for one's place in the world.
3. "The Bridge" was nominated for the National Book Award and was also listed among the best books of the year by Time and The Washington Post.
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