Seattle, 1981: Robert Kincaid, l'indimenticabile protagonista de "I ponti di Madison County", è seduto al tavolo della sua cucina, in una fredda mattina di novembre. A fargli compagnia solo il ricordo dei quattro giorni di passione trascorsi anni prima con Francesca Johnson, in una sperduta fattoria dell'lowa. Ma ricordi e immagini non bastano più a Robert: prende allora zaino, macchine fotografiche, qualche rullino e accende il suo amato furgone, di nuovo alla volta di Madison County e del Roseman Bridge.
I ponti di Madison County è la storia di Robert Kincaid, fotografo di fama, e Francesca Johnson, moglie di un agricoltore. Kincaid, singolare, quasi mistico viaggiatore dei deserti asiatici, di fiumi lontani, di antiche città, è un uomo che quasi non appartiene al suo tempo. Francesca Johnson, un'italiana giunta in America come sposa di guerra, vive tra le colline dello Iowa meridionale e, di tanto in tanto, torna col pensiero ai suoi sogni di ragazza. Nessuno dei due ha mai cercato qualcosa di diverso da quello che ha, ma quando Robert, in viaggio per un servizio, entra nel cortile di lei per chiedere un'informazione, il ritmo delle loro esistenze si spezza sotto la forza di un'emozione inesprimibile. L'incontro fra Robert e Francesca diventa rapidamente un legame profondo e ciò che accade durante pochi giorni di una torrida estate, presso i vecchi ponti coperti di Madison County, è per entrambi un'esperienza così intensa da trasfigurare i luoghi consueti e i gesti quotidiani. I momenti trascorsi insieme diventano un patrimonio raro e prezioso di sentimenti a cui attingere per il resto della vita e che sopravviverà a loro stessi. Una storia appassionante, che riscopre nell'amore la forza originaria dell'esistenza, una vicenda profondamente commovente, espressa in una prosa lirica, che consacra Robert James Waller autore fra i più rappresentativi della nuova narrativa americana.
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, Waller revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society
On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with the Iowa house wife, Francesca Johnson, during four days of love, magic, and beauty. This is the story of Robert Kincaid, a wandering magazine photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, an farm wife born in Italy waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. Their encounter, fraught with dangers, survives only in their psyches. Both know that what could have been, should have been, could not be. Yet, hearts persist, tickling both characters' minds. Both remember a few stolen moments when two souls sang in perfect harmony, but through circumstance must not sing again. The romantic classic of the 1990's.
Uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to
commit extraordinary acts of evil. This book offers a comprehensive
psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes
against humanity.
From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.
A young drifter with a passion for solitude and carpentry, Carlisle McMillan purchases some land near Wolf Butte, South Dakota, a region considered sacred by the Sioux, and sets out to build a life for himself among the locals
Set against the backdrop of a high desert night, an old-time gambler awaits an ominous fate in his remote ranch house. Winchell Dear, reflecting on his past with Lucinda Miller, prepares for an uncertain confrontation, armed and restless. The atmosphere is thick with tension as he listens to the sounds of the night, while outside, the unpredictable Luther stalks through the landscape. Themes of chance, memory, and impending danger intertwine in this evocative tale of solitude and anticipation.
The author of the blockbuster The Bridges of Madison County blends passion and adventure in the story of an American novelist in Mexico and his young lover, who take a trip with a killer.
Most people don't run out the back door of a place called the Rainbow Bar in Dillon, Minnesota, with someone they don't even know, get in a pickup truck, drive all day, and end up without any clothes on in a motel room. But that's what Texas Jack Carmine did with Linda Lobo. It was the kind of thing Jack was famous for doing. The people who knew Texas Jack Carmine - such as songwriter Bobby McGregor and Jack's uncle Vaughn Rhomer back in Iowa - called him God's only freeborn soul, rider of the summer roads, traveler of the far places. Where he was headed with dark-haired, long-legged Linda was not just back to his one-horse Texas ranch. It was somewhere he had never been: face to face with his own heart and the wild, strange things that live there. Border Music is the story of Jack and Linda, of long, hot days on a high desert ranch, nights wild with loving beneath West Texas skies, and times when their relationship tears them both apart. It's about Vietnam and the Midwest, and Vaughn Rhomer, an old man who,tries in his own fumbling way to be free. It's about men and women who work hard and care intensely, about romance and the passion that you only find once...and you never stop wanting to find again.
