Evan S. Connell

Wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge tries to cope with her dissastisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.

A Novel

Mrs. Bridge

On a scorching June Sunday in 1876, thousands of Indian warriors - Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho - converged on a grassy ridge above the valley of Montana's Little Bighorn River. On the ridge five companies of United States cavalry - 262 soldiers, comprising officers and troopers - fought desperately but hopelessly. When the guns fell silent, no soldier - including their commanding officer, Lt Col. George Armstrong Custer - had survived. 130 years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers', wrote what continues to be the most reliable - and compulsively readable - account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his research and novelist's eye for story and detail to re-create the heroism, foolishness and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

General Custer and the Battle of Little Bighorn

Son of the Morning Star

Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, a young man sits in his cramped San Francisco apartment during the turbulent 1960s and channels everything around him into a diary that is a perfect record of a world going to pieces.

The Diary of a Rapist

It eludes the usual categories of literature, falling somewhere in that dimly defined but extraordinarily fertile area where prose and verse, fiction and non-fiction, metaphysics and science meet.

Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel

A successful lawyer in 1930's Kansas City, Walter Bridge has difficulty understanding his wife's dissatisfaction and his children's rebelliousness.

Mr. Bridge

A new collection of essays by the author of Mrs. Bridge and Son of a Morning Star covers a wide range of topics from the Anasazi Indians of the desert Southwest to explorer Marco Polo to seminal advances in the fields of astronomy, archaeology, anthropology, and linguistics. 25,000 first printing.

Selected Essays

The Aztec Treasure House

The author exposes the falsities of modern middle class life, revealing the weakness and doubts underpinning a family caught up in conformity, materialism, and false sense of security layered over modern life. Reprint.

Deus Lo Volt!

Wandering into a Taos curio shop, insurance executive Muhlbach becomes increasingly intrigued by a little pre-Columbian figurine that he purchases as a first item of a collection with which he becomes increasingly enthusiastic. Original.

The Connoisseur

With his customary droll humor, Connell brings to life in these seven essays advances made in cartography, anthropology, astronomy, linguistics, and archaeology by showing the enormous lengths to which outstanding individuals have driven themselves in passionate pursuit of knowledge.

The White Lantern

Jerry Stoll

I Am a Lover

A collection of short works which center around the significance of minor events in the everyday lives of such characters as Mr. Bemis, Katia and her lion, and a wanderer back from Spain.

New and Selected Stories

Lost in Uttar Pradesh

Journal of a civil servant, married to a woman who has rejected him, telling of his life of fantasy and petty violence.

"The 1960s: news of riots, war, unheard-of behavior, and rampant crime crowds the papers and the airwaves. Spurned by his wife at home and by superiors at work, Earl Summerfield hunkers down in his cramped San Francisco apartment and keeps a diary that is a scratched record of a world going to pieces. The words he overhears, the words he wants to say, swim in his head, turning into fantasies of ambition, love, and retribution. He is sorry for himself. He is angry at everyone. He takes to going out night, slipping into other people's houses. He is looking for something, and he fixes on one woman."--BOOK JACKET.

Mrs Bridge ; And, Mr Bridge

In this collection of poems, the author meditates on the follies, cruelties and frailties of humankind adopting an outraged, vehement and sardonic tone as he gazes through his "teleidoscope" - an instrument for viewing the images of the ends of things.

Points for a Compass Rose

Gathers fifty-six stories by the distinguished prose stylist written between 1946 and 1995

The Collected Stories of Evan S. Connell

Karl Muhlbach, hero of Evan Connell's previous novel, The Connoisseur, has a new obsession—a beautiful, nubile girl–about–New York named Lambeth Brent, whose puzzling background and swinging activities lead Muhlbach into dark areas, causing new revelations of himself as a man to emerge. The mysterious bonds between opposites come into sharp relief as we follow the course of Muhlbach and Lambeth's relationship. An uncomfortable visit to the ballet, an abortive country vacation, brief but sparkling happy moments, and Muhlbach's final, shocking discovery add up to a mosaic of vignettes, rendering the characters startlingly real. Double Honeymoon explores the built–in dangers of a love affair between a cautious, conservative, middle–aged widower and a neurotic, high–strung, self–destructive girl. But far from just another May–September romance, the book is a keen examination of the dilemma posed by two people who are attracted to each other, yet unable to come together because of the profound differences in their backgrounds and outlooks. With a sure hand, Evan Connell demonstrates just how profound those differences can be.

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