Bridge of San Luis Rey

English

ISBN: 006091341X

EAN: 9780060913410

Category: Fiction / Literary/Fiction / Historical/

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 07/01/1986

Synopsis: This beautiful new edition features unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. With this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the authors timeless investigation into the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. This new edition of Wilder s 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel contains a new foreword by Russell Banks.

Awards: Pulitzer Prize – null 

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Bridge of San Luis Rey

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.11 inches

Width: 5.11 inches

Length: 8.11 inches

Weight: 4.8 oz

Pages: 160