Description
Description
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.
About the Author
About the Author
RICHARD RUSSO is the author of nine novels, most recently Chances Are..., Everybody's Fool and That Old Cape Magic; two collections of stories; and the memoir Elsewhere. In 2002 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Empire Falls, which, like Nobody's Fool, was adapted into a multiple-award-winning miniseries; in 2017, he received France's Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A magnificent, bighearted new novel [and] an astounding achievement.... A masterpiece."
--The Boston Globe "A story of constantly evolving complexity and depth.... [Bridge of Sighs is] Russo's most intricate, multifaceted novel ... enormous and enormously moving."
--The Washington Post Book World "A novel of great warmth, charm and intimacy ... richly evocative and beautifully wrought."
--The New York Times "[Russo's] most ambitious and best work."
--USA Today
--The Boston Globe "A story of constantly evolving complexity and depth.... [Bridge of Sighs is] Russo's most intricate, multifaceted novel ... enormous and enormously moving."
--The Washington Post Book World "A novel of great warmth, charm and intimacy ... richly evocative and beautifully wrought."
--The New York Times "[Russo's] most ambitious and best work."
--USA Today
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub date:
2008-09-01
Length:
656 pages
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