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Richard Russo and
Arthur Morey (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
September 25, 2007
Binding
CD/Spoken Word
Edition
Unabridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780739318898
ISBN-10
0739318896
Dimensions
2.25 by 5 by 6 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$44.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston with his wife of forty years, indominable mother, and grown son, Louis Charles and his wife Sarah prepare for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy to visit his childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier, where he hopes to come to terms with the secrets of small-town life and their individual fates. Simultaneous.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prizeâwinning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement.
Louis Charles (âLucyâ) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though heâs had plenty of reasons not to beâchief 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 âempireâ of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.
Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything theyâd known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the âhistoryâ heâs writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son whoâd fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.
Louis Charles (âLucyâ) Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though heâs had plenty of reasons not to beâchief 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 âempireâ of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.
Lucy and Sarah are also preparing for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Italy, where his oldest friend, a renowned painter, has exiled himself far from anything theyâd known in childhood. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the âhistoryâ heâs writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son whoâd fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.
Editions
Hardcover
from Vintage Uk (October 4, 2007)
9780701175979 | details & prices | 544 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.50 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $29.60
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
About: Presents a story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, with dark seam of glittering secrets.
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
About: Presents a story of parents and children, of family both benevolent and malevolent, of small-town community and its hidden toxic effects, with dark seam of glittering secrets.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (August 12, 2008)
9781400030903 | details & prices | 641 pages | 5.25 × 8.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $15.95
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
Miscellaneous
Unabridged edition from Findaway World Llc (September 25, 2007); titled "The Bridge of Sighs"
from Findaway World Llc (September 25, 2007); titled "The Bridge of Sighs"
9780739371244 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.26 lbs | List price $49.99
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
This edition also contains Bridge of Sighs
CD/Spoken Word
The price comparison is for this edition
Unabridged edition from Random House (September 25, 2007)
9780739318898 | details & prices | 5.00 × 6.00 × 2.25 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $44.95
About: After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.
About: After sixty years of living in the upstate New York town of Thomaston, Louis Charles and his wife of forty years, Sarah, prepare for a trip to Italy to visit Louis' childhood friend, an artist who had fled his hometown many years earlier.
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