The Bridge
โ Scribed by Enza Gandolfo
- Publisher
- Scribe Publications
- Year
- 2018;2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 234 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1925548937
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โฆ Synopsis
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...
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