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Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
ISBN 10: 0060088877ISBN 13: 9780060088873
Seller: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Good.
Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
ISBN 10: 0060088877ISBN 13: 9780060088873
Seller: Escape Routes Used Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good.
Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
ISBN 10: 0060088877ISBN 13: 9780060088873
Seller: Chapter II, Sierra Vista, AZ, U.S.A.
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Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2003
ISBN 10: 0060088877ISBN 13: 9780060088873
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 138 pages. This beautiful new edition features unpublished no tes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, al l of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. On F riday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Pe ru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. Wit h this celebrated sentence Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of S an Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnes ses the tragedy. Brother Juniper then embarks on a quest to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to t he deaths of those who perished in the tragedy. His search leads to his own death -- and to the author's timeless investigation in to the nature of love and the meaning of the human condition. Th is new edition of Wilder's 1928 Pulitzer Prize winning novel cont ains a new foreword by Russell Banks. Editorial Reviews About t he Author Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished noveli st and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between t he commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continu e to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Lui s Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as di d two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Ski n of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly! He also enjoyed enormous success with man y other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching , acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's S hadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this d ay.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literatu re.