The Bridge by Gay Talese

The Bridge, by Gay Talese, is a non-fiction book that informs readers of exactly what a large scale construction project means to the people who built it and the people affected by it, specifically, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York city. In The Bridge, Gay Talese started the novel by telling us about a group of people called the boomers. These men were cowboys of large construction projects. They went around from town to town building bridges and buildings in the morning and getting drunk in the bars at night. When their job was finished in one town, they would go on to the next. Talese said “They are cocky men, men of great pride, and at night they brag and build bridges in bars…. “(Talese 2)

Talese went into great detail about how the citizens of the communities were affected by the Verrazano-Narrows; one community greatly appreciated the bridge because they gained property value from it. Another community hated the bridge, because they were forced to leave their homes in