Written from her point of view, in small vignettes that emphasise the disconnection of her world, the novel is a brilliant portrait of emotional repression in the thrall of respectability. Mrs Bridge, published two years later, might be seen as one of the best novels in the budding genre of American suburban fiction, also explored by John Updike, Richard Yates, John Cheever and Philip Roth (to whose Goodbye, Columbus Mrs Bridge lost the National Book award).Ĭonnell's novel was set during the Depression, in Kansas City, where India Bridge is married to the stiff, proper lawyer Walter. He lived briefly in Paris, where he began writing stories for the Paris Review, and published his first collection of short stories, The Anatomy Lesson (1957), to glowing reviews. After the second world war, he finished his degree at the University of Kansas, and used the GI bill to study painting and creative writing at Stanford in California, Columbia in New York and San Francisco State University. He left Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, after two years to join the US navy in 1943, becoming a pilot and falling in love with New Mexico, where he did his flight training.
" was concerned that I would never be able to make a living at this kind of thing – it was a justifiable concern," he said. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where his father and grandfather were doctors he was expected to enter into the family practice, rather than pursue writing.
Connell's work often reflected elements of his own life.
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