01962cam a2200325 i 4500 1130059472 TxAuBib 20240216120000.0 080730s2008||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008276067 9781400030903 PAP 18.00 1400030900 PAP 18.00 (OCoLC)240201586 TxAuBib rda Russo, Richard, 1949- Bridge of sighs [BOOK] / Richard Russo. First Vintage Contemporaries edition. New York : Vintage Contemporaries, 2008. 641 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Lucy is sixty years old and has spent his entire life in Thomaston, New York. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he’s had plenty of reasons not to be—chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an “empire” of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation. Lucy's oldest friend, once a rival for his wife's affection, leads a life in Venice far removed from Thomaston. In fact, the exact nature of their friendship is one of the many mysteries Lucy hopes to untangle in the “history” he’s writing of his hometown and family. And with his story interspersed with that of Noonan, the native son who’d fled so long ago, the destinies building up around both of them (and Sarah, too) are relentless, constantly surprising, and utterly revealing.". 20240216. City and town life Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Lifestyles Fiction. New York (State) Fiction. Italy Fiction.