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Six years after his Pulitzer Prize-winning Empire Falls, Richard Russo has returned to familiar terrain, providing a minutely detailed and mesmerizing view of small-town life in the Northeast ...
Toward the center of this street is the Camden Deli, where Russo wrote much of his sixth and newest novel, “Bridge of Sighs” (Alfred A. Knopf: 528 pp., $26.95).
It has been justly acclaimed over and over again. Bridge of Sighs is fine, but it is not Russo at his best. Still, the similarities between the two might also have a reflexive effect.
It’s difficult to gauge Richard Russo’s politics from his novels. In his latest, “Bridge of Sighs,” there is a near celebration of what have come to be called traditional values: the ...
Bridge of Sighs Richard Russo, . . Knopf, $26.95 (527pp) ISBN 978-0-375-41495-4 Signature Reviewed by Jeffrey Frank ...
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