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Find more info., search and price compare for The Eighth Day: A Novel by Thornton Wilder Binding: Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Weight: 0.55 pound Dimension: H: 1.4 x L: 7.7 x W: 5.3 inches ISBN 10: 0060088915 ISBN 13: 9780060088910 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: 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features a new foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on such unique sources as Wilder's unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins of the book, and other illuminating documentary material.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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