The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge

The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge

Author	Gay Talese
Illustrator	Lili Réthi – drawings Bruce Davidson – photographs
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Non-fiction
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1964
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	140 pp
ISBN	0-8027-7644-2
Dewey Decimal	624/.5/097472 21
LC Class	TG147.5 .T35 2003

The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge was a 1964 book by Gay Talese about the construction of the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge. The book is a straightforward journalistic account of the bridge's construction. The book was published shortly after the completion of the bridge. Because of Talese's later success, the book was reissued in paperback in 2003.

Works by Gay Talese

Magazine articles	"Joe Louis: The King as a Middle-aged Man" "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" "The Silent Season of a Hero" "Travels with a Diva:On the road with the soprano Marina Poplavskaya"

Non-fiction	The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (1964) The Kingdom and the Power (1969) Fame and Obscurity (1970) Honor Thy Father (1971) Thy Neighbor's Wife (1981) Unto the Sons (1992) Origins of a Nonfiction Writer (1996) A Writer's Life (2006)

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