Bridge is comprised of over one hundred titled chapters, containing vignettes, an image, a fragment of conversation, an event-all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided beneath by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal alienation. Connell is expert at sketching the banalities and trivialities of middle-class values, customs, and habits. Hilarious and heartbreaking in equal measure, these two novels - told from both perspectives of the marriage - deserve their place amongst the classics of American twentieth-century fiction.' (-from the publisher).Best-selling author Evan S. Connell illuminates the narrow morality, confusion and even terror at the heart of lives of plenty. In a series of comic, telling vignettes, Evan S. And yet sometimes both experience the vague, disquieting sensation that all is not well in their comfortable lives. Mrs Bridge spends her time shopping, going to bridge parties and bringing up her children to have nice manners Mr Bridge is an outwardly successful lawyer who only wants the best for his family. The Bridges are an unremarkable and conservative couple who live in Kansas City with their three children. Renowned designer Thomas Heatherwick is famous for projects as diverse as the Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, the East Beach Cafe in West Sussex and the flagship Longchamp store in New York. The books can either be read separately, or slotted together in a unique book sculpture. Thomas Heatherwick, who most recently designed the new London Routemaster Bus and the spectacular Olympic Cauldron, has specially created this beautiful and innovative interlocking edition, which is available in a limited print run of just 1000 copies. Connell's brilliant novels Mr Bridge and Mrs Bridge. 'This limited hardback edition brings together Evan S.

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