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Book Club - The Bridge over the San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

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Time: October 30, 2012 from 8pm to 10pm
Location: Grandpa's
Street: Xikang Hutong
City/Town: The Chun
Event Type: literature, meeting
Organized By: Arts and Letters
Latest Activity: Oct 30, 2012

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Wilder, Thornton ''The Bridge of San Luis Rey''-En-Es.pdf

Winner of the 1927 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Thornton Wilder’s The Bridge of San Luis Reybegins: “On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” Much like the opening of The Eighth Day (1967), Wilder begins at the height of havoc. Immediately, the reader knows the tragic fate of the novel’s five main characters, but their significance is still a mystery. Wilder then introduces Brother Juniper, a Franciscan missionary who witnessed the tragedy. Deeply affected by the lives lost in the bridge’s collapse, Brother Juniper begins a mission to uncover the truth about the five victims. In so doing, he asks the novel’s pivotal question: “Why did this happen to those five?”

Thornton Wilder Society: http://www.tcnj.edu/~wilder/

Thornton Wilder family, Official website: http://www.thorntonwilder.com/

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Comment by Richard Roman on October 18, 2012 at 1:04: Film no good . You must read the book!

Comment by Jack Field on October 18, 2012 at 0:28: I like it too. Will be there. Might have to just watch the video tho

Comment by Nicholas Farmer on October 17, 2012 at 20:10: Thornton Wilder graduated from the same high school as me, though admittedly 90 years earlier.

Comment by Richard Roman on October 1, 2012 at 12:35: Will hope to set up a Skype link with anabel on the evening!

Comment by Richard ridealgh on October 1, 2012 at 9:24: just downloaded it to the ipad, I will read it since its just me and nature this holiday.

Comment by Richard Roman on September 18, 2012 at 14:44: Wilder received nearly universal praise for The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Laurence Stallings of McCall’s called the novel “the philosophical novel brought to perfection.”⁸ Confirming The Bridge of San Luis Rey initial reception, the novel was ranked thirty-seventh on the Modern Library Board’s list of the hundred best novels of the twentieth century.

Read it and come!