Richard Russo, the voice of the working class is back with his latest novel ‘Bridge of Sighs’. Readers hold high expectations from him as his last work ‘Empire Falls’, won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel which has been set in an upstate New York town revolves around three characters. The basic theme can b interpreted with the help of one line from a character, which reads, ‘Can it be that what provides for us is the very thing that poisons us?’
The settings stretch from Atlantic to Venice and the story digs into the past of the three characters who are friends also. The characters have been drawn complex and the descriptions are vivid. The story is narrated by Louis Lynch, who is one of the two who settled back home and the third one goes to Venice to become a painter. The story runs on a parallel track, one of the narrator and the other of Robert Noonan. However, this time Russo has portrayed his women stronger then men. Bridge of Sighs deals with a small town and normal people, their problems but has a lot of interpretations and a big tale to tell.
Source: USAtoday
