{"product_id":"the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey-paperback","title":"The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThornton Wilder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel--by the author of \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Skin of Our Teeth\u003c\/i\u003e--has been beloved around the world for nearly a century.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. \"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.\" A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals--a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child--come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives--snuffed out in one shattering moment--illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHORNTON WILDER \u003c\/b\u003e(1897-1975) is the only writer to have been awarded Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction (for \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge of San Luis Rey), \u003c\/i\u003e and drama (twice, for \u003ci\u003eOur Town\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Skin of Our Teeth)\u003c\/i\u003e. His play \u003ci\u003eThe Matchmaker\u003c\/i\u003e was adapted into the musical \u003ci\u003eHello, Dolly!\u003c\/i\u003e, and he wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eShadow of a Doubt\u003c\/i\u003e. Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bridge of San Luis Rey\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.1\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52008468250925,"sku":"9780593470947","price":12.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/h0onqKVW4l9780593470947.webp?v=1776822466","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-bridge-of-san-luis-rey-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}