This Wilder is imaginative but completely genuine with his characters, each more exquisite and bizarre than the next, and each portrayed down to the smallest detail of countenance, spirit, and philosophy.

This novel was nothing like the Wilder I know from having seen and read Our Town. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.” But the love will have been enough all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. “oon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten.

He should have left faith out of the equation completely: as the old Abbess of the orphanage/hospital understands, the love between humans is the only connection that matters: For his efforts to see a link between the character of a person and the sudden, premature death brought on by calamity, he is burned at the stake for heresy. In The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder, a priest tries to find the connection between the five people killed by the unexpected collapse of the Bridge of San Luis Rey and his faith in God. Hours of business: Mon-Fri 10 to 6 Number 46 is at the northern end of Shepherd Market, formerly the location of Shepherds bindery, a five minute walk from Green Park tube station (Jubilee, Victoria and Piccadilly lines) and only slightly more from Bond Street station.The Bridge of San Luis Rey: Collapse and ConnectionĮvery great book has as a theme the need for connection: the human desire to connect with another living being. We also display a selection of stock at our Mayfair shop: 46 Curzon Street Number 48 is on the south side of Bedford Square, a five minute walk from Totten ham Court Road or Goodge Street underground stations and a ten minute walk from Russell Square. Great Britain Hours of business: Mon-Fri 9:30 to 5 Our primary address is our Bloomsbury shop: Stock Code: 132599 Members of: Antiquarian Booksellers Association Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association International League of Antiquarian Booksellers Inscribed by the author on the half-title: 'Douglas Glass - cordial regards of his friend Thornton Wilder, Newport R.I., October 1953'. New York, Grosset and Dunlap, publishers, in arrangement with Albert & Charles Boni.

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