TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gandolfo,Enza
TI  - The bridge
SN  - 9781925713015 (paperback)
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Richmond, Victoria
PB  - Scribe Publications
KW  - Novel
KW  - English
KW  - Australia
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Texts
KW  - Industrial accidents
KW  - Melbourne
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Survival
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Grief
KW  - fast
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Guilt - Fiction
KW  - Bridge failures - Australia - Fiction
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - Construction workers
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Bridges
KW  - Design and construction
KW  - Accidents
KW  - West Gate Bridge (Melbourne, Vic.)
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - Australian
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Domestic fiction
N1  - 1970 -- 2009 -- 2010
N2  - Did the dead exist? Were they watching? Were they ghosts? Not the kind he'd imagined as a child, draped with white sheets, with the ability to walk through walls, but the kind that lodged themselves in your heart, in your memories, the kind that came to you in dreams, that you could see when you closed your eyes and sometimes even when your eyes were opened. In 1970s Melbourne, 22-year-old Italian migrant Antonello is newly married and working as a rigger on the West Gate Bridge, a gleaming monument to a modern city. When the bridge collapses one October morning, killing 35 of his workmates, his world crashes down on him. In 2009, Jo and her best friend, Ashleigh, are on the verge of finishing high school and flush with the possibilities for their future. But one terrible mistake sets Jo’s life on a radically different course. Drawing on true events of Australia's worst industrial accident -- a tragedy that still scars the city -- The Bridge is a profoundly moving novel that examines class, guilt, and moral culpability. Yet it shows that even the most harrowing of situations can give way to forgiveness and redemption. Ultimately, it is a testament to survival and the resilience of the human spirit
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