Vignes first appeared in the literary world during the late thirteen century, when they were drawn like garland on the borders of early manuscripts they increased a book’s value, added to its beauty, and, in many cases, proved illustrative, enhancing a reader’s understanding of the text. The word vignette comes from the Old French diminutive of vigne, meaning little vine. These neat, linear images function in several ways: as a social critique of the era’s lust for conformity, as an aesthetic choice representing the psychology of his protagonist, and as an attempt to explicate time’s relationship to a forward-looking, consumptive lifestyle-all of which make the book interesting and relevant today, over sixty years later. Connell wrote 117 vignettes, which are presented chronologically. In lieu of the classic chapters-based format, however, author Evan S. Bridge, published in 1959, is a classic American novel about the misunderstandings and alienation of an incurious housewife living in Kansas City during the interwar years.
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