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The Resource Bridge of sighs, Richard Russo, (electronic resource)

Bridge of sighs, Richard Russo, (electronic resource)

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Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement. Louis Charles ("Lucy") 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 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 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 they'd known in childhood. 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. BRIDGE OF SIGHS is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences -- often contrary, sometimes not -- prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions
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eng
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  • Downloadable audio file
  • Title from: Title details screen
  • Unabridged
  • Duration: 26:58:50
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9781415943083
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Bridge of sighs
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Bridge of sighs
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Richard Russo
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eng
Summary
Six years after the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo returns with a novel that expands even further his widely heralded achievement. Louis Charles ("Lucy") 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 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 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 they'd known in childhood. 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. BRIDGE OF SIGHS is classic Russo, coursing with small-town rhythms and the claims of family, yet it is brilliantly enlarged by an expatriate whose motivations and experiences -- often contrary, sometimes not -- prove every bit as mesmerizing as they resonate through these richly different lives. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions
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1949-
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Russo, Richard
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813/.54
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LC call number
PS3568.U812
LC item number
B75 2007ab
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fiction
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Read by Arthur Morey
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  • Morey, Arthur
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  • City and town life
  • Friendship
  • Lifestyles
  • New York (State)
  • Italy
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Bridge of sighs, Richard Russo, (electronic resource)
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Publication
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  • Downloadable audio file
  • Title from: Title details screen
  • Unabridged
  • Duration: 26:58:50
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digital storage
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stereophonic
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electronic
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Isbn
9781415943083
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(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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e9e40ff0-02a1-4b36-a530-bc2bec72d962
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sound
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unknown
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  • (OCoLC)181590648
  • (OCoLC)530575
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  • Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 387829 KB)
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Label
Bridge of sighs, Richard Russo, (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
  • Downloadable audio file
  • Title from: Title details screen
  • Unabridged
  • Duration: 26:58:50
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Color
not applicable
Configuration of playback channels
stereophonic
Dimensions
  • not applicable
  • unknown
Form of item
electronic
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Isbn
9781415943083
Isbn Type
(sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
e9e40ff0-02a1-4b36-a530-bc2bec72d962
Sound
sound
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
  • other
  • remote
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unknown
System control number
  • ocn181590648
  • (OCoLC)181590648
  • (OCoLC)530575
System details
  • Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 387829 KB)
  • Mode of access: World Wide Web
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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