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Across the Bridge

Across the Bridge

by Mavis Gallant

Book Details

Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1994
Language: en
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780771033070
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Content Intensity

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💥ViolenceNone
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❤️Love & RomanceLow
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🧠Mental HealthVery low
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💬!*$#LanguageNone
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🍷🚬Substance UseNone
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😨Fear / HorrorNone

Story Themes

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🧙Fantasy / SupernaturalNot present
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🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ+ RepresentationNot present
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🚀Sci-Fi / FuturisticNot present
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Disability & NeurodiversityNot present

Description

In Across the Bridge, four of the eleven stories are connected, following the fortunes of the Carette family in Montreal. In “1933,” their widowed mother teaches Berthe and Marie to deny that she was a seamstress and to say instead that she was “clever with her hands.” In “The Chosen Husband,” the luckless suitor Louis has to undergo the front-parlour scrutiny of Marie’s mother and sister: “But then Louis began to cough and had to cover his mouth. He was in trouble with a caramel.

Themes & Topics

FictionShort Stories (single author)World LiteratureCanada20th CenturyLiterary
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