The Bridge
- ISBN-10
- 0060505214
- ISBN-13
- 9780060505219
- Series
- The Bridge
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 400
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-11-05
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Doug Marlette
Description
From Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette comes the captivating story of Pick Cantrell, a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. In the grip of a midlife meltdown, Pick returns with his wife and son to a small North Carolina town, where he confronts the ghosts of his past in the form of the family matriarch and his boyhood nemesis, Mama Lucy. What follows is an extraordinary story within a story, as Pick uncovers startling truths about himself and about the role his grandmother played in the tragic General Textile Strike Of 1934 A novel about family, love, and forgiveness, The Bridge explores how much we ever really know about others, and most important, about ourselves.
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