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Title: The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Niven Wilder ISBN: 0-06-014631-1 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: October, 1967 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (61 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Love is Enough
Comment: The hardest books to review are your favorites. This is my fifth attempt on this one.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey concerns one of the primary questions of human existance. Does God have a plan for our deaths and is there a reason we die? (Pretend that was only one question.) This novel is certainly the best to explore the topic. It is vastly insightful and gives its insight within a powerful narrative.
The novel begins with the collapse of the bridge of San Luis Rey which kills the five people crossing it. Brother Juniper witnesses the catastrophe, and he decides to use this opportunity to study the reasons for death. What follows is the story of each of the persons' lives who died. In each story you find a connecting bond: love. Each had been touched by love. The stories together reaveal simply that. Everyones' life matters because of love, and the dead are still connected to the living by a bridge of love.
What I've written about the novel is really too simplistic. The Bridge of San Luis Rey is only a very short novel, but within those pages is a multitude of insight which cannot be explained in a short review (especially without giving away too much of the book). I think that I'll just conclude this rambling review by saying that this is a beautiful little novel which deserves a place among the very top novels of last century. I also think that in wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy, The Bridge of San Luis Rey could gain importance by giving the people affected insight into the tragedy and comfort them.
Rating: 4
Summary: an elegant set of stories that tugs at the heart strings...
Comment: 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' is a deceptively simple set of inter-related stories about a handful of people who perish when a primitive bridge collapses in eighteenth century Peru. Sounds dull? Well,.. wrong. Thornton Wilder does a fine job in describing personal angst and hardship of these people; their plight can easily be told in a modern setting. I was especially moved by the one story of a older woman trying to come to terms with the decaying relationship between herself and her daughter. Yet, unsurprisingly, not all the stories affected me personally. Sort of hit-and-miss. But in the end I felt moved by it all; this short book does leave you with the feeling you've read something significant.
Bottom line: an uneven but ultimately very satisfying read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Three things about this book:exquisite, exquisite, exquisite
Comment: If you want to read a novel written in masterful, melodic prose with exquisite character development, an intriguing and beguiling plot structure, and a work of profound substance and meaning, read this book. It is a true work of art. Read it, then read any contemporary American novel, read any winner of the National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, etc., and see the dearth of talent that exists among even our most "distinguished" prose stylists. Read it aloud and hear how a master of the English language can construct a narrative that is as perfect to the ear as a piece of classical music.
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Title: Three Plays by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0060929855 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Laughing Boy by Oliver LA Farge, Oliver LaFarge ISBN: 0451524675 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: November, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington ISBN: 0375752501 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin ISBN: 0440330076 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 November, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Theophilus North: A Novel by Thornton Wilder ISBN: 0060088923 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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