01402cam a2200301 4500 126613296 TxAuBib 20130201120000.0 071030s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2007027970 9780375414954 $26.95 0375414959 $26.95 (OCoLC)148836193 DLC DLC NjBwBT TxAuBib Russo, Richard, 1949- Bridge of sighs / Richard Russo. 1st ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. 527 p. ; 25 cm. Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his sixty years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for forty of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be--chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive. Yet it was her shrewdness, combined with that Lynch optimism, that had propelled them years ago to the right side of the tracks and created an "empire" of convenience stores about to be passed on to the next generation.... 20100304. City and town life Fiction. Friendship Fiction. Lifestyles Fiction. New York (State) Fiction. Italy Fiction. TXWIT