Mary Agnes Keely is finally leaving home, ditching her Irish Catholic upbringing, her widowed mother, and the emptiness of small-town life for the chaos of Manhattan. Her journey will alter many lives: Lydia, whose crazed husband is confined at Shay Acres; Stanley, the dreaming commercial artist who brings his eager body to her virginal bed; and a ragtag array of artists and poets. Choosing her own way, Mary Agnes taps hidden resources in a gradual process of creative self-discovery realizing triumphantly that "it was no great sin to be, at last, alone." Stylistically original, laced with Howard's characteristic irony and sharp wit, Bridgeport Bus illustrates why "Maureen Howard belongs on any list of the best American novelist practicing today" (Robie Maccauley, Chicago Sun-Times).
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First I will write: When I go home I walk through all the dim two-family-house streets where the colors are brown and gray with what they call cream trim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, Lydia Savaard, New York, Miss Keely, Henry Savaard, Aunt Lil, Stanley Sarnicki, Jim Neary, Aunt Mae, Little Dot, Shady Acres, Jack Hurley, New Haven, Bridgeport Bus, Fifth Avenue, Tony De Angelo, Long Island, Bert Sigal, Colonel Leavit, Evening American, Grand Central, Shaker Heights, Sherry Henderson, Western Beef New!
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First I will write: When I go home I walk through all the dim two-family-house streets where the colors are brown and gray with what they call cream trim. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mary Agnes, Mary Elizabeth, Lydia Savaard, New York, Miss Keely, Henry Savaard, Aunt Lil, Stanley Sarnicki, Jim Neary, Aunt Mae, Little Dot, Shady Acres, Jack Hurley, New Haven, Bridgeport Bus, Fifth Avenue, Tony De Angelo, Long Island, Bert Sigal, Colonel Leavit, Evening American, Grand Central, Shaker Heights, Sherry Henderson, Western Beef New!
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- Expensive Habits by Maureen Howard in Front Matter
- Before My Time (The Penguin Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Maureen Howard in Front Matter
- Not a Word About Nightingales by Maureen Howard in Front Matter
- San Juan Hill by Will Henry on page 66
- It Had to Be by Mary E. Hall on page 108
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- Irish America: Coming Into Clover by Maureen Dezell on page 109, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Irish America: Coming Into Clover by Maureen Dezell on page 109, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin on page 152, page 154, and Back Matter
- A Lover's Almanac: A Novel by Maureen Howard in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Private Histories: The Writing of Irish Americans, 1900-1935 by Ron Ebest on page 139, and page 142
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