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The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Betsy Lerner
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Description for The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BM; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 31. Weight in Grams: 304.
For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies. A card table with four folding chairs (and one dummy seat). A plate of homemade cookies or brownies on the kitchen counter somewhere, largely untouched. And once they begin the game, hours of silence, punctuated only by the sound of cards being plucked up or snapped down. As a child, Betsy Lerner thought the Bridge Ladies were fascinatingly chic, with their frosted hair-dos and shiny nylons. To the teenage ... Read more
For the past fifty years, Monday afternoons in New Haven have always been the same: Roz, Rhoda, Bea, Jackie and Bette - the Bridge Ladies. A card table with four folding chairs (and one dummy seat). A plate of homemade cookies or brownies on the kitchen counter somewhere, largely untouched. And once they begin the game, hours of silence, punctuated only by the sound of cards being plucked up or snapped down. As a child, Betsy Lerner thought the Bridge Ladies were fascinatingly chic, with their frosted hair-dos and shiny nylons. To the teenage ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447272526
SKU
V9781447272526
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About Betsy Lerner
Betsy Lerner is the author of The Forest for the Tress and Food and Loathing. She received an MFA from Columbia University in Poetry and was the recipient of a Thomas Wolfe Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, and was one of PEN's Emerging Writers. She also received the Tony Godwin Publishing Prize for Editors Under 35. ... Read more
Reviews for The Bridge Ladies: A Memoir
Heart-warming
Sunday Express
In the end what we want from our mothers - and what they want from us - is acceptance. Our mothers have been always trying to fix us, which has given us the message that we're not OK, says Betsy Lerner. Meanwhile, we daughters have been trying to fix them. Betsy's book says, ... Read more
Sunday Express
In the end what we want from our mothers - and what they want from us - is acceptance. Our mothers have been always trying to fix us, which has given us the message that we're not OK, says Betsy Lerner. Meanwhile, we daughters have been trying to fix them. Betsy's book says, ... Read more