Author: Thornton Wilder
Translator: Young-seon Kim
Publisher: Saemtoh
Hardcover | 256 pages | 190*130mm
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About This Book
"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 seeks to prove
that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the
deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His study leads to his own
death -- and to the author's timeless investigation into the nature of
love and the meaning of the human condition.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is now reissued in this handsome hardcover
edition featuring a new foreword by Russell Banks. Tappan Wilder has
written an engaging and thought-provoking afterword, which includes
unpublished notes for the Pulitzer Prize?winning novel, illuminating
photographs, and other remarkable documentary material. Granville
Hicks's insightful comment about Wilder suggests an inveterate truth:
"As a craftsman he is second to none, and there are few who have looked
deeper into the human heart."
About the Author
One of America's most acclaimed and beloved writers, Thornton Wilder
(1897-1975) was a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his acclaimed
novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and his full-length dramas Our Town and
The Skin of Our Teeth. Wilder's numerous other honors include the Gold
Medal for Fiction of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal
for Literature.
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