Bridge of Sighs

Straus & Giroux, LLC and Faber and Faber Ltd.: Excerpt from “This Be the Verse” from
Collected Poems
by Philip Larkin, copyright © 1988, 2003 by The Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC and Faber and Faber Ltd.
    Ray Charles Enterprises, Inc.: Excerpts from “Hit the Road Jack” by Percy Mayfield, copyright © by Tangerine Music Corp. Reprinted by permission of Ray Charles Enterprises, Inc., by arrangement with the Ray Charles Marketing Group.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Russo, Richard, date.
    Bridge of sighs / Richard Russo.—1st ed.
    p. cm.
    1. City and town life—Fiction. 2. New York (State)—Fiction. 3. Italy—Fiction. 4. Friendship—Fiction. 5. Lifestyles—Fiction. I. Title.
    PS 3568. U 812 B 75 2007
    813'.54—dc22                                                                2007027970
    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    eISBN: 978-0-307-26790-0
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