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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper)
1993-09
Here is another classic that slipped by me during my school years. What a powerful novel. It's hard to find this sort of caliber fiction in the popular market today. In a time of early rugged individualism, in the years of the Depression, here come Lenny and George. They are an oddity to the field workers they join to garner a living. It is all too transparent that the clumsy, oversized, highly-challenged... more
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| 2. Son of the Morning Star: Custer and The Little Bighorn |
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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: North Point Press
October 30, 1997
As you might expect of a book hailed by Larry McMurtry as one of the best treatments of the Great Plains in American history, this book is an elegantly and devilishly plotted story of an elegant and devilish man, George Armstrong Custer. Taking as its central focus the Battle of the Little Bighorn,it spins out the stories of the other major players, including Crazy Horse, by weaving back and forth... more
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| 3. Mrs. Bridge | |
By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Counterpoint
January 05, 2010
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| 4. Mrs. Bridge: A Novel | 
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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: North Point Press
September 01, 1990
This is an excellent story that was turned into a wonderful movie staring Paul Newman and his wife Joan Woodward. At first, because of the way the book is written, it was hard for me to get into, but once I became accustomed to it, I really started to enjoy it. I haven't read Mr. Bridge yet, but I intend to. ... more
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| 5. Mr. Bridge: A Novel |
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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Counterpoint
January 13, 2005
This is a brilliant book. It was written in conjunction with Mrs. Bridge: A Novel and I recommend that the reader read them both. Read together, these two novels have a real, pulsating sense of two individuals lost in their social armor - - repressed, deadened, yet yearning.
Mrs. Bridge is a helpless upper class wife and mother. She knows that somewhere there lurks a sense of self... more
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| 6. Mr. Bridge |
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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: North Point Press
September 01, 1990
This is a remarkable book. After reading it, I feel like I know this joyless man - - his repressed loves, hatreds, protestant work ethic, respect for hardworking white men and his sharp edges disguised as curves and his softness protected by guard rails.
Mr. Bridge is unable to express his feelings yet he moves forward in life guided by his loyalty and the emotions evoked by those he... more
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| 7. Francisco Goya: Life and Times | 
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By: Evan Connell
Publisher: Counterpoint
March 15, 2005
I find the author's style extremely irritating. He seems to be one of those people who confuse an ironic, gossipy style with wit. I couldn't care less about the maid his family had when he was a child; I don't see that she had anything whatsoever to do with Josefa de Goya beyond the fact that they were both women. Nor do I see what the conquistadores had to do with Goya, for that matter. If there's... more
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| 8. The Connoisseur: A Novel |
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By: Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Counterpoint
November 22, 2005
This book certainly deserves more attention. I can't do it justice in a review as I read it many years ago, in the 1980s. But I'm compelled to chime in since so little is written about it here. It remains in my memory as the best depiction of the mind of a collector that I've ever read. The protagonist becomes obsessed with pre-Columbian art, with discriminating between objects, with authenticity... more
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| 9. The Anatomy Lesson and Other Stories | |
By: Evan S. CONNELL
Publisher: Viking Press
January 01, 1957
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| 10. I am a lover | |
By: Jerry Stoll, Jr. Evan S. Connell
Publisher: Angel Island Publications
1961
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