Evan S. Connell
Evan S. Connell was a Kansas City writer of quietly devastating precision whose Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge remain among the finest portrait novels in American fiction, anatomizing bourgeois marriage with cold compassion.
Works
- Mrs. BridgeNovel exploring domestic life and feminine consciousness of an upper-middle-class wife
- Mr. BridgeNovel providing male perspective on marriage and suburban American life
- The Diary of a Rapist
- The ConnoisseurNovel about collecting as obsession and passion for rare and beautiful objects
- Saint Augustine's PigeonCollection of short stories exploring relationships and human connection