Evan S Connell
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Pub. Date
2012
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"We have here on the planet with us a man of such courage and strength of spirit that he has not lost what Alfred Adler calls 'the nerve for excellence.' He has kept it despite the burden of an awareness not only of the enormity of his project and of the limitations of his own human understanding, but also of the abject ignorance and indifference of his audience...
"Somehow Connell makes you care. Many modern poets demand a good deal of work; Connell...
"Somehow Connell makes you care. Many modern poets demand a good deal of work; Connell...
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Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
In Mrs. Bridge, Evan S. Connell, a consummate storyteller, artfully crafts a portrait using the finest of details in everyday events and confrontations. The novel is comprised of vignettes, images, fragments of conversations, events--all building powerfully toward the completed group portrait of a family, closely knit on the surface but deeply divided by loneliness, boredom, misunderstandings, isolation, sexual longing, and terminal isolation. In...
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
"Evan Connell has long been attracted to the visionary and eccentric, to those people and events slightly outside the mainstream of human experience. His subjects are people of passion and purpose, events of legend and desire, the quixotic obsession for the new, the hidden, the unattainable." "These are tales of fabulous advances in anthropology, archaeology, astronomy and linguistics, stories of the Anasazi, the "old ones" of the southwestern desert,...