Evan S. Connell: Mr Bridge (Penguin Modern Classics) [2013] paperback FTRAN taking a wide-ranging look at

taking a wide-ranging look at the most intense experience of human thought and feeling in language

Thomas spent some seventy years of his life in the reclusive environment of monasteries

gnawing addiction

facing the inevitable reality of death

I read it at a single sitting

Evan S. Connell: Mr Bridge (Penguin Modern Classics) [2013] paperback FTRAN taking a wide-ranging look atThe companion novel to Mrs Bridge, this is a pitch perfect portrayal of marriage and family life and a poignant dissection of the unexamined life. Walter Bridge, husband to India and father to three, is a successful lawyer in a Kansas suburb. The daily dramas of his life only serve to illuminate his narrow prejudices and complacent outlook, yet he is also troubled by existential doubts, dark undercurrents of desire and a yearning for something forever