Bridie and Finn

by Harry Cauley

Book Overview

In a close-knit New Jersey community during the 1940s, Bridie and Finn grow up just a few doors apart from each other and eventually must confront the nature of their relationship. A first novel. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151139105
• ISBN13: 9780151139101
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Bridie and Finn

I love this book! I read it every other summer - hoping that each time I read it, I will uncover something new that I may have missed. It touches my heart each an every time I come to the end of the book. I spend several minutes convincing myself that Bridie and Finn are not real and I am not a member of their childhood neighborhood.

Bridie and Finn

I read this book 5 years ago, and it is still my favorite! Once you start reading, you will not be able to put it down. Definitely a "must" read!

It will move you, make you laugh, touch your heart.

This book, Bridie and Finn, does everything that a book should do: it opens up windows in your soul, tickles your funny bone, shocks with brilliant clarity about the human condition. I loved the book, the people, the turns of phrase, the surprises, the tenderness and its bittersweet quality. A lovely novel about real people.

Wonderful; Nostalgic; A tender tale of bittersweet loss

From the moment one reads the title, BRIDIE AND FINN, one can't help being curious. As it turns out, the principle character, Bridie is just the sort of unique character that every reader loves to embrace. Nostalgia and romance rank high in this story set in a time that no longer exists, a time where just as many stories of drama took place at the homefront as they did in the battlefields of War. The most astonishing thing about the novel is the shocking ending. BRIDIE AND FINN is truly one of the sweetest novels that I have ever read; it definitely has a special place in my heart

Personal, sad, funny and rewarding.

I read this book and then re-read it. This is the story of two children who experience dysfunctional families, jealousy, love, tenderness, and the innocent yet seedy side of our culture and life's hard lessons. They grow to love one another very deeply and yet part ways. The first chapter (the end of the story) broke my heart when I read it for the second time and yet I yearned to be one of them- to share what they had shared- despite the cost