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The Goat Bridge
A Novel

T. M. McNally

Winner of The William Faulkner - William Wisdom Gold Medal

PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist

An American photographer in the war-torn Balkans struggles to rebuild his shattered life after the kidnapping of his son

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Praise for the Book

"[A] lacerating and exquisite novel of loss and mourning. . . ."
---Booklist: A 2005 Editors' Choice

"An unusual love story, The Goat Bridge is an unforgettable story of loss and redemption built around some very powerful images. Richly layered and emotionally compelling, this haunting tale is not only deftly written but also features masterful characterization."
---Register-Pajaronian (Watsonville CA)

"Brilliant. . . . The intricately layered narrative, moving back and forth in time and space, builds to a conclusion both bloody and subtle . . ."
---Chicago Tribune

"The Goat Bridge finds [McNally] at new heights. It's fascinating, heartbreaking, illuminating, poetic, wrenching, and unflinching."
---Playback

"Touched with some of the aphoristic delicacy of Milan Kundera, and searching in the mode of Graham Greene, McNally's tale of redemption nonetheless has a sinewy elegance entirely its own."
---Publishers Weekly

". . . in his most far-reaching and scorchingly beautiful novel, [McNally] extends his acute insights into the workings of the mind to the traumas of a besieged city. . . . In Stephen, an artist with a conscience and a man who has lost what is most precious, McNally has created an unflinching witness to humankind's capacity for both evil and transcendent love. And every penetrating thought, harrowing predicament, vivid feeling, and powerfully evoked setting exerts a profound fascination in this lacerating and exquisite novel of crime and war, suffering and sacrifice, revelation and redemption."
---Booklist (starred review)

"With a sensitive yet razor-sharp vision, T. M. McNally probes the deepest and most difficult aspects of life in that great century of warring, the Twentieth. The Goat Bridge is a novel of love, loss, death, conflicts of the heart as well as between men who would kill in the name of ideology. This is a poignant, masterful work."
---Bradford Morrow, author of Ariel's Crossing

"T.M. McNally's new novel, The Goat Bridge, is at once an imaginative engagement with the war in Yugoslavia, and a moving story of human frailty, bewilderment, and grief. He understands in his bones the dimensions of the Balkan tragedy---the difficult and shifting facts of internecine conflict---as well as the contours of ordinary love and loss. 'Evil,' he writes, 'it's not a person. It is what a person does. As is Good.' And he explores this idea with passion and verve. The Goat Bridge is a magnificent novel."
---Christopher Merrill, author of Only the Nails Remain: Scenes from the Balkan Wars