Books like Bridge of Sighs
Lou Lynch, sixty, who has spent his whole life in the upstate New York town of Thomaston running his family's corner stores, writes his life story as he and his wife plan a trip to Venice to see his boyhood friend Bobby Marconi, now a famous painter.
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Friends and Strangers
Elisabeth, a journalist and new mother who has just moved from Brooklyn to a small Hudson Valley town, hires Sam, a college senior, to babysit, and the two become friends across a divide neither of them sees clearly.
Cat's Eye
A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
Still Life
In the summer of 1944, among the ruins of Tuscany, Ulysses Temper, a young British soldier, meets Evelyn Skinner, an English art historian in her sixties who has come to rescue paintings, and the meeting shapes the next forty years of his life.
Empire Falls
A struggling restaurant manager in a declining Maine mill town holds together his family, his friendships, and his sanity by a thread.
My Brilliant Friend
A shoemaker's brilliant daughter in postwar Naples forms an intense friendship that spans sixty years, surviving poverty, violence, ambition, and the changing face of Italy.
Our Country Friends
A group of friends quarantine together at a Hudson Valley dacha during the pandemic, and the isolation reveals every fault line in their relationships.
Tell Me Everything
In Crosby, Maine, the lawyer Bob Burgess takes on the case of a lonely man suspected of killing his mother, while his friend, the writer Lucy Barton, visits the elderly Olive Kitteridge, who has stories she wants to tell.
The Vivisector
Hurtle Duffield, sold as a small boy by his poor parents to a rich Sydney family, grows up to become a painter who will use everyone he loves as material.
All Adults Here
Astrid Strick, a widow in a small Hudson Valley town, sees an acquaintance killed by a school bus, and decides it is time to tell her grown children something she has kept from them.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
The Marriage Portrait
In 1561, Lucrezia de' Medici, the teenage wife of the Duke of Ferrara, is taken by her husband to a remote country villa and becomes certain that he intends to kill her.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.