A review by sweetramona
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder

3.0

I am glad to have read this small book. I had never read Wilder, and have not seen any of his plays. I had a perception of him (which I now realise is almost certainly incorrect) that he was sort of the Norman Rockwell of American letters - a nostalgist for an idealised form of Americana. So I was really happily surprised by the complexity of the portraits here, particularly of the Marquesa and Esteban. I appreciated that no one in this book was wholly good or wholly bad, and that several were able to undergo a moral change.

This makes me want to know more of his work. I am curious to know what his other works have to say about the Divine plan vs. the redemptive power of love and human connection.