Evan S. Connell Bücher

Mrs. Bridge ist eine Frau in den besten Jahren. Sie führt eine Muster-Ehe an der Seite ihres fabelhaften Gatten Mr. Bridge, eines erfolgreichen Anwalts, widmet sich hingebungsvoll ihren drei fabelhaften Kindern und hat als Familienmanagerin auch sonst alles bestens im Griff. Obendrein ist sie herzlich, lebenslustig und liebenswert. Eigentlich könnte alles fabelhaft so weiter gehen. Doch die Diskrepanz zwischen Schein und Sein bestimmt zunehmend den Mikrokosmos der Bridges. Und Mrs. Bridge beschleicht immer öfter das Gefühl, dass ihr der eigentliche Sinn des Lebens seltsam verborgen bleibt …

A new collection of essays by the author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of a Morning Star covers a wide range of topics from the Anasazi Indians of the desert Southwest to explorer Marco Polo to seminal advances in the fields of astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics. 25,000 first printing.

On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived. Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history - 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something, even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the void within - not the skeleton in the closet but a black hole swallowing the whole household.