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The Bridge of San Luis Rey - by Thornton Wilder (Paperback)

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  • The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history.
  • Author(s): Thornton Wilder
  • 192 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Historical

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When Lima's most famous bridge suddenly and mysteriously collapses, plunging five people to their certain deaths, one man discovers his mission. He was the only apparent eyewitness and nothing will stop him from unearthing the truth.



Book Synopsis



The authorized, original edition of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic with a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Wilder's nephew, Tappan Wilder, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history.

"As close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature." --Russell Banks

"There are books that haunt you down the years, books that seem to touch and stir something deep inside you. . . . Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is of this kind." --The Independent (London)

"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." This immortal sentence opens The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American literature, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a novel still read throughout the world.

Brother Juniper, a Franciscan monk, witnesses the tragic event. Deeply moved, he embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention, not chance, that led to the deaths of the five people crossing the bridge that day. Ultimately, his search leads to a timeless investigation into the nature of fate and love, and the meaning of the human condition.



Review Quotes




"One of the greatest-reading novels in [twentieth-century] American writing. . . . Wonderfully lucid reading." -- Edmund Fuller

"A remarkably confident evocation of the secret springs of half a dozen men, women and children. . . . A very beautiful book." -- The Nation

"It is a subtle idea admirably worked out and leaves a vivid impression of society in the golden age of the most aristocratic capital of Latin America. The histories of the five people are told perfectly with sympathy and insight." -- New Statesman

"The essence of Mr. Wilder's book is really the feeling in it; it is a 'notation of the heart' with sympathy. Gaily or sadly, but always with understanding, a belief in the miracle of love runs through it all." -- Times Literary Supplement (London)

"A masterpiece." -- New York Herald Tribune


Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 192
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Historical
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Theme: Ancient
Format: Paperback
Author: Thornton Wilder
Language: English
Street Date: December 7, 2021
TCIN: 83977216
UPC: 9780063114852
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-3100
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.6 inches length x 5.3 inches width x 7.9 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.3 pounds
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