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The Other Side of the Bridge

The Other Side of the Bridge

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Written by Mary LawsonAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Mary Lawson

  • Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
  • Publisher: The Dial Press
  • On Sale: September 26, 2006
  • Price: $25.00
  • ISBN: 978-0-385-34037-3 (0-385-34037-0)
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.
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From the author of Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession.

Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge.

Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed – a little, but not enough.

These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men – its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

"Lawson's evocative writing untangles her chatacters' confused impulses toward city and country, love and hate, good and evil."
--Publishers Weekly