The Eighth Day (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Wilder, Thornton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060088915 ISBN 13: 9780060088910

Verlag: PERENNIAL, 2007

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Book by Wilder Thornton

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The lives of the two southern Illinois families become intertwined after John Barrington Ashley is convicted for the murder of his employer, Breckenridge Lansing, in a novel set in a midwestern town at the turn of the twentieth century. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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This new edition of Thornton Wilder's renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel features a new foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder's unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material.

In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the Rio Grande border town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched The Eighth Day, a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two families blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other. The miraculous escape of the accused killer, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom triggers a powerful story tracing the fate of his and the victim's wife and children. At once a murder mystery and a philosophical story, The Eighth Day is a "suspenseful and deeply moving" (New York Times) work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic.

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• Verlag: PERENNIAL
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060088915
• ISBN 13: 9780060088910
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 481