![]() ![]() Frankly to comment on that, I would need to have read Mrs Bridge more recently (rather than just thinking I had). ![]() With Mr Bridge, published in 1968, nine years after Mrs, Connell faces the task of making a book both familiar and new, and with all the internal consistencies that a companion volume requires. I couldn’t wait until then to read the second volume, of course, and now that I’ve read it, have to get it out of my head and onto the screen right now. ![]() Mrs Bridge, then, will be reissued in July 2012, with Mr Bridge to follow in 2013. Back then, in the innocent days of April 2010, I asked “Classics imprints, where are you?” The answer was: here all along, because even then (quite independently of my plea) Penguin Modern Classics slowly and surely drew their plans to do the decent thing. Connell’s novel Mrs Bridge? It feels like I just finished it. How else to explain that it’s approaching two years since I read and raved over Evan S. ![]()
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