![]() ![]() A companion novel, published 10 years later, tells essentially the same story from the point of her lawyer husband. ![]() Bridge is told from the point of view of the mother, India Bridge. It was written by Evan Connell and published in 1959. I wouldn't say that anyone else must read anything.Ī novel to consider, one of my favorites, and probably the one that influenced me most, is the story of an ordinary middle-class family living in Kansas City. They were novels like Our Lady of the Flowers, Rabbit, Run, Ninety-Two in the Shade, The Sot-Weed Factor - whose writers were as different from one another as Jerzy Kosinski and John Hawkes, and Saul Bellow. My influences as a writer weren't best-sellers, and certainly not mysteries. Everybody thought I would go on to write serious fiction. Here's a surprise for you: The people who know me, really know me, think of me as an underachiever. ![]()
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