BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
by Wilder, Thornton
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 006091341X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060913410
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About This Item
New York NY: Time Inc.. 1963. Reprint. Softcover. 006091341X . Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Surface tears on inside back cover; With a new introduction by Kay Boyle. A Franciscan monk's investigation into the collapse of a Peruvian bridge probes the private lives of the victims. ; Trade PB; 139 pages .
Reviews
On Oct 5 2010, Sergerca said:
We all have a worldview (don't we?) that influences just about everything we encounter. Literature is no exception. Perhaps that is why I thought the main point of Thornton Wilder's outstanding The Bridge of San Luis Rey was so obvious.In many of the reviews I've read, many have stated that Wilder leaves the main conclusion up to the reader. I must disagree. The final line, so quoted by many of the reviewers, makes it all very clear to me. "All those impulses of love return to the love that made them." Perhaps, had Wilder capitalized the second "love" more would have drawn the same conclusion as I. That love is, of course, the love of the Father. This short book is rooted in Christian realism -- summed up in that final page. Life and God's ways as they pertain to life, are a mystery to the believer. Seemingly saintly people die far too early in inexplicable circumstances-- a bridge that has lasted for centuries one day breaks under the weight of an old woman, a cripple, an old man, a young girl, and a young man. But the "why" is not for us to know. We all must live in the comfort that it is His will that reigns, not ours, and that the love which sustained us in this life will see us to the next. Perhaps Brother Juniper found his answer. I know I recognized mine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gibson's Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36877
- Title
- BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY
- Author
- Wilder, Thornton
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 006091341X
- ISBN 13
- 9780060913410
- Publisher
- Time Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York NY
- Date Published
- 1963
- Keywords
- 006091341X, Wilder, Thornton, Fiction, Boyle, Kay
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.