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The bridge of San Luis Rey / by Thornton Wilder ; illustrated by Amy Drevenstedt.
LIBRA PS3545.I345 B7
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LIBRA - Special PS3545.I345 B7 1927
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bridges--Accidents--Fiction.
- Bridges.
- Accident victims--Fiction.
- Accident victims.
- Bridges--Accidents.
- Peru--Fiction.
- Peru.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A. & C. Boni, 1927.
- Summary:
- Set in 18th century Lima, Peru, a rickety bridge which has spanned a deep gorge for ages suddenly breaks, and five people plunge to their deaths. A priest who is deeply affected by the catastrophe decides to make an investigative study of the lives of the victims to determine if he can find some clue to God's intention in casting five dis-associated mortals into eternity at precisely the same moment.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has pieces of "This Modern World" laid in.
- OCLC:
- 424233
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