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The Bridge
by Doug Marlette

Published: 2002-11-05
Paperback : 400 pages
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From Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette comes the captivating story of Pick Cantrell, a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. In the grip of a midlife meltdown, Pick returns with his wife and son to a small North Carolina town, where he confronts the ghosts of ...

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From Pulitzer Prize winner Doug Marlette comes the captivating story of Pick Cantrell, a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. In the grip of a midlife meltdown, Pick returns with his wife and son to a small North Carolina town, 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 about the role his grandmother played in the tragic 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 important, about ourselves.

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  "the bridge"by Carolyn R. (see profile) 09/04/17

story of Pick Cantrell, a successful newspaper cartoonist whose career has hit the skids. In the grip of a midlife meltdown, Pick returns with his wife and son to a small North Carolina town... (read more)

 
  "A very enjoyable book."by Debbie P. (see profile) 11/23/07

I had the honor of seeing Pat Conroy and Doug Marlette together at a book festival in Durham, NC a few years ago. The deep friendship and humor between these two men was clearly tangible. I was already... (read more)

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