Bridge of Sighs Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Richard Russo
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
214

Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo Book Summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes "a magnificent, bighearted” novel (The Boston Globe) about small-town America that follows Louis Charles Lynch (“Lucy”) and his wife of forty years as they prepare to embark on a vacation to Italy.  

Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.

Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.

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Book Name Bridge of Sighs
Genre Literary
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 2.62 MB

Bridge of Sighs (Richard Russo) Book Reviews 2024

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Maybe it's me...but.... I can't believe there is no review for this novel! even me, coming to the literary table late, I am rapidly assessing who and what I like to read. It's literary by the way. Richard Russo is an incredible and original author who's acumen in articulating his words into art makes his work stand out above the "typical" fiction sold today. Everyone wants a " movie" in a book these days. James Patterson and Dan Brown, etc.,oh God, please! I'm sick of them and their lack of intuitive creativity that every good author faces everyday. This author is completely understated in his craft and I'm flummoxed that no one has offered a review on this particular book. I'm just starting it and I was profoundly amazed when he wrote about how Lucy's satisfaction in his biography of his geography within his life. Further, most people consider " circumscribed" of travel to be normal a normal habit of success. Russo countered something that made me think that "everyone is circumscribed through something, illness, ignorance"( big one!) etc. I feel so bad for Mr. Russo that he has the challenge to write a novel that isn't an original book, creating issues and real life characters' and authentic but what you heard at the breakfast table that morning. I once heard Barbara Taylor Bradford say in an interview, she remarked that she just can't just sit around waiting for inspiration. Just write. Even though I have never read her novels and are a bit leery about its quality, considering her craft to be synonymous with a photo booth in the mall. Predictable writing and no self-actualation. Otherwise folks, John Grisham and Danielle steel are dying for you to digest their latest due out soon. Artistic talent and seducing the English language to create a sentence is a difficult task that has you starting all over again every book you write. Mr. Russo deserves more readers feedback and notoriety about his books. He is fresh and original. When I'm through with reading all his novels, I plan to write a review on everyone because it enlightens readers to read more of his amazing literature that will sell and make fiction worth while.

Bridge of sighs. Bridge of Sighs is a slow-moving, every-man, story that meanders in a rather captivating way through three generations off it's focal family and a couple of generations of other protagonists' families. Taking its own time to unfold, the story draws you and then gently sets you down. Several story lines are left up in the air- told indirectly through vague memories - by the end the first person accounts are even proven unsound...so walk in knowing you may never know what really happened. Well written.

A beautiful book. I had never read Russo before picking up bridge of sighs....and I will now make a point to read his other novels. This was a beautifully written story of life and all that it entails. Sad at times but so realistic. The characters are well thought out and well rounded. I find myself remembering, soul searching, and questioning, just as his main character does throughout the novel. I had a hard time putting this one down and was sad to have it end!

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Summary of Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo

The Bridge of Sighs book written by Richard Russo was published on 25 September 2007, Tuesday in the Literary category. A total of 214 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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