The Bridge
The stunning new short novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's family house in the Pyrenees. Miquel's mother left the year before, in a rage, and died alone in a snowstorm. Miquel's brot...
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| Summary: | The stunning new short novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island. Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's family house in the Pyrenees. Miquel's mother left the year before, in a rage, and died alone in a snowstorm. Miquel's brother has too abandoned what's left of the family. But the construction of a new bridge will soon end the valley's remoteness. No longer will these Pyrenees villages be so isolated; no longer will small time smugglers cart their contraband over the rope bridge on donkeys. Where Miquel's father imagines opportunity, Miquel foresees disaster and an exposure to the outside world for which his father is desperately unprepared. A gorgeous and gutting short novel about grief and desire, The Bridge is a masterpiece. With meticulous precision and an unerring eye, Toibin captures lives caught between the past and the present, and the devastating journey of a young man seeking connection, haunted by loss. |
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| ISBN: | 9781668264041 1668264048 |
| Author Notes: | In 1978 he returned to Dublin and began working on an M.A. in Modern English and American Literature. He wrote for In Dublin, Hibernia, and The Sunday Tribune. He became the Features Editor of In Dublin in 1981, and then a year later accepted the position of Editor for the Irish current affairs magazine Magill. His first book, Walking Along the Border, was published in 1987 and his first novel, The South, was published in 1990. He wrote for The Sunday Independent as a drama or television critic and political commentator. He writes regularly for The London Review of Books. He has written several other novels including The Story of the Night, The Blackwater Lightship, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, and Nora Webster. The Heather Blazing received the 1993 Encore Award and The Master received the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Stonewall Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. He was short listed for the 2015 Folio Prize for his title Nora Webster. (Bowker Author Biography) |
