Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder

n nWinner of the Pulitzer Prizen nAs close to perfect a moral fable as we are ever likely to get in American literature. --Russell Banksn nThere 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)n nOn 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.n nBrother 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.n nThis beautiful edition includes a foreword by acclaimed author Russell Banks and an afterword by Thornton Wilder's nephew, Tappan, with illuminating documentary material about the novel and its rich literary history.n