An edition of The Bridge (1986)

The bridge

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An edition of The Bridge (1986)

The bridge

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  • 9 Have read

Orr, the otherwise unnamed protagonist of this Pynchonesque novel, is a successful Scottish engineer who's a bit fed up with life: his work doesn't really interest him anymore; years of doping and boozing have dulled him; his girlfriend has other lovers (he does too, but he would rather she was monogamous). Then one evening he crashes his classic Jaguar into a parked MG. The aftermath is coma and months of amnesiac trance, a condition that Orr apparently comes to prefer. The reader, however, only understands all this towards the end of the novel. Virtually the whole of the narrative consists of Orr's trauma-induced hallucinations. The bridge of the title is a fantastically ramifying construct in Orr's brain resembling an outer-space city in a science fiction movie. Banks's ( The Player of Games ) novel is satire, and its target turns out to be the British Isles' equivalent of American "yuppies." Deploying a wide range of stylistic devices, the narrative condemns fiercely an overly mechanistic society and its self-referential ethos.

Publish Date
Publisher
Macmillan
Language
English
Pages
256

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The Bridge
The Bridge
May 1, 1992, Abacus
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: The Bridge.
The Bridge.
1989, Futura, Futura Pubns.
in English
Cover of: The bridge
The bridge
1987, Pan in association with Macmillan
in English
Cover of: The bridge
The bridge
1986, Macmillan
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Basingstoke

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6052.A485

The Physical Object

Pagination
(256)p. ;
Number of pages
256

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22382545M
Internet Archive
bridge0000bank_t9k4
ISBN 10
0333412850
LCCN
gb86013937
OCLC/WorldCat
59096549
Wikidata
Q98601827
Library Thing
7193
Goodreads
12004

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