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Bridge-Man Burning: The Sins of a Southern Man
As a boy Coleman Putttman Bridgeman III was hurt by the love he hungered for. Now as a young man, leaving his hometown behind, he carries with him the family blood that runs through his veins and voices of the past that run through his head. In marriage and business, Coleman faces love’s most powerful battles where he must confront the weakest and deepest, parts of himself. Honesty versus dishonesty, faithfulness versus betrayal, and courage versus cowardice, are all in play while the question Will Coleman Puttman Bridgeman III win his war, or will he lose love forever?
- GenresFiction
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 23, 2018
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Kaye Park Hinckley
13 books56 followers2020 NEW YORK BIG BOOK AWARD DISTINGUISHED, Absence
2019 NEW YORK BIG BOOK AWARD WINNER,
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2018 INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD WINNER,
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2019 American Fiction Award Finalist.
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October 13, 2020
The best thing which can be said about any novel is that your heart sinks when you see the words, 'THE END'. Mine did! I was so enjoying my time with Cole and Anna, Charles Robert and Sarah Neal, Putt and Beth, baby Sarah and Fig, I wanted the book to go on and on. Please let there be a sequel! No, it was not that their lives were a bed of roses. There were all too real, struggles and disagreements, worries and misunderstandings, growth and retrogression, but through it all, they kept fighting to be family even while with an underlying desire to love they fought as much with themselves as with each other, which IS family.
Wonderful Kaye! Thank you so much! bl+
October 8, 2020: I was so excited to learn there is a sequel to A Hunger in the Heart which I just finished and really loved!
Wonderful Kaye! Thank you so much! bl+
October 8, 2020: I was so excited to learn there is a sequel to A Hunger in the Heart which I just finished and really loved!
August 10, 2019
A potential reader should first read A Hunger in the Heart to fully understand and appreciate this story, but it's well worth doing so! Once again, I enjoyed the author’s narrative, and the dialogue is always just enough to keep it real. The characters I loved in A Hunger in the Heart returned, along with a few more that were well done. I connected emotionally with a number of them. And this novel had a satisfying ending with a twist.
May 25, 2019
I read and enjoyed A Hunger in the Heart, the story of a family in Gator Town FL in the 1950's.
This book opens in 1962. Two of the Bridgeman clan are dead: C.P. and Putt. Surviving is Coleman, whose grandfather was C.P. and whose father was Putt. Coleman is the main focus of this second story.
Coleman, because his grandfather mandated it, goes to St Benedict's School for Boys, a "Cathlik" school. There he meets three boys, but especially Tommy, who shows up later in the book. Coleman marries Anna, the love of his life and enlists so that he can fight in Vietnam. Anna and Coleman have a son, who is named Putt, after HIS grandfather. Upon Coleman's return, he starts to build up his grandfather's construction company, renaming it Rise Construction.
Here's a quote that defines Coleman and his approach to life:
"Even though C.P. was dead, Coleman still seemed swayed by the old man’s arrogant sense of survival."
Coleman does become successful, mainly because of government contracts thrown his way by Vince Dooley, the County Commissioner. Coleman works more and more and his marriage suffers. Coleman is further tempted to fudge numbers on a new contract and by a voluptuous 'accountant' assigned to fudge those numbers.
This is a classic story of money becoming more important than integrity. Will Coleman see the light, realize he is losing Anna and reform? Let's hope so for Anna's sake and Coleman's son Putt.
Interesting family saga.
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
This book opens in 1962. Two of the Bridgeman clan are dead: C.P. and Putt. Surviving is Coleman, whose grandfather was C.P. and whose father was Putt. Coleman is the main focus of this second story.
Coleman, because his grandfather mandated it, goes to St Benedict's School for Boys, a "Cathlik" school. There he meets three boys, but especially Tommy, who shows up later in the book. Coleman marries Anna, the love of his life and enlists so that he can fight in Vietnam. Anna and Coleman have a son, who is named Putt, after HIS grandfather. Upon Coleman's return, he starts to build up his grandfather's construction company, renaming it Rise Construction.
Here's a quote that defines Coleman and his approach to life:
"Even though C.P. was dead, Coleman still seemed swayed by the old man’s arrogant sense of survival."
Coleman does become successful, mainly because of government contracts thrown his way by Vince Dooley, the County Commissioner. Coleman works more and more and his marriage suffers. Coleman is further tempted to fudge numbers on a new contract and by a voluptuous 'accountant' assigned to fudge those numbers.
This is a classic story of money becoming more important than integrity. Will Coleman see the light, realize he is losing Anna and reform? Let's hope so for Anna's sake and Coleman's son Putt.
Interesting family saga.
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
April 18, 2020
A worthy sequel and a great read!
Fig quietly and gracefully steals the show as the model/exemplar/guide to the main protagonists as they wrestle with this business of living life, of finding, losing and finding again faith, hope and love. Realistic characters who bear the burden of their parents' and grandparents' legacies and create some burdens of their own but who do learn along the way. A sequel that can stand alone but you would be missing out if you haven't yet read the author's earlier gem, A Hunger in the Heart!
Fig quietly and gracefully steals the show as the model/exemplar/guide to the main protagonists as they wrestle with this business of living life, of finding, losing and finding again faith, hope and love. Realistic characters who bear the burden of their parents' and grandparents' legacies and create some burdens of their own but who do learn along the way. A sequel that can stand alone but you would be missing out if you haven't yet read the author's earlier gem, A Hunger in the Heart!
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