
Bridge of Sighs
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Narrado por:
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Arthur Morey
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Richard Russo
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • 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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"Largehearted, vividly populated and filled with life from America's recent, still vanishing past." (Publishers Weekly)
"A novel of great warmth, charm and intimacy . . . richly evocative and beautifully wrought." (Janet Maslin, New York Times)
"His most ambitious and best work." (Bob Minzesheimer, USA Today)
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I fell in love with the people because they had roots in the town and in their family. I rooted for them to find happiness and they did. None of them got exactly what they wanted, but they lived interesting and rewarding lives and made the best of what what life gave.
The story captures real people who were judged unworthy by fate to live out their dreams, but unlike the hopeless Venetians, their sighs were more of exasperation than hopelessness.
This book will keep you involved to the end.
A Bridge Over Troubled Waters
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Wonderful
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captivating and rich
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I didn't want to leave
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Family love
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I too wanted to be in Ikey Rubin's shop, being spoilt by Big Lou and his wife; I too fell in love with Bobby...oh Bobby.
The narrator did a fine job with the different characters' voices. At first I found his pace slow; but I came to realize that this pace fitted in perfectly with the main "teller" of the story, Lucy (Lou C. Lynch)who himself was rather slow and ponderous in everything he did.
If you're a fan of fast paced dramas with a gripping, detailed storyline then this probably isn't the right book for you. But if you like a novel with excellent characterizations that makes you think about life and love and engrosses you in an imaginary world and it's people, then you should thoroughly enjoy this.
Engrossing
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Bridge of Sighs
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Russo is a great storyteller.
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Readers/listeners who are familiar with the down-on-their-luck towns of his other books (except "Straight Man," which is a whole other delightful story of its own) will feel as though they've come home again. These new characters, too, are flawed, trying hard, making the best of it, making mistakes, coming together, and falling apart. The plot is textured and complex, spanning generations, continents, and social classes. It is wistful, heartbreaking, sweet, sad, and often funny, and although I missed the wisecracking Sully and his friends (if you haven't yet, get "Nobody's Fool"), these people had distinct voices that were just as affecting and effective.
The narrator is terrific, with a nuanced style that reflects the pain (or joy) of the action and the lyricism of the prose.
Wonderful
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Another great Russo read
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