The Bridge
Registered by 
bookczuk
of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on 3/27/2004
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
bookczuk of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA on 3/27/2004 This Book is Currently in the Wild!
1 journaler for this copy...
I got this book simply because I heard Doug Marlette on NPR talking about it. He was prompted to write it after finding his own grandmother (who sounds like a major terror) was at one point, bayonetted in the strike at the local mill in the 30's...he had never heard that about her, and as he delved into his family history, he got the foundations for this novel.
From the Publisher
Pick Cantrell is a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. Fired from his job in New York, he returns with his wife and son to Eno, North Carolina, where he confronts the ghosts of his past in the form of the family matriarch and his boyhood nemesis, Mama Lucy.
What follows is an extraordinary story within a story, as Pick uncovers startling truths about himself and the role his grandmother played in the crippling General Textile Strike of 1934. A novel about family, love, and forgiveness, The Bridge explores how much we ever really know about others, and most importantly, about ourselves.
Registered as part of theBC Convention/Anniversary Challenge 2004
From the Publisher
Pick Cantrell is a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. Fired from his job in New York, he returns with his wife and son to Eno, North Carolina, where he confronts the ghosts of his past in the form of the family matriarch and his boyhood nemesis, Mama Lucy.
What follows is an extraordinary story within a story, as Pick uncovers startling truths about himself and the role his grandmother played in the crippling General Textile Strike of 1934. A novel about family, love, and forgiveness, The Bridge explores how much we ever really know about others, and most importantly, about ourselves.
Registered as part of theBC Convention/Anniversary Challenge 2004
Journal Entry 2 by bookczuk at Starbucks - 239 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina USA on Saturday, April 3, 2004
bookczuk at Starbucks - 239 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina USA on Saturday, April 3, 2004
Released on Saturday, April 03, 2004 at Starbucks on King St. in Charleston, South Carolina USA.Today is the Cooper River Bridge Run. I am releasing this book as part of the BC Convention/Anniversary Challenge 2004 and in honor of the 27th annual Cooper River Bridge Run! (Though the bridge walk is more my speed...)
It's a gloriously beautiful day. GEt out there and have fun!!!
