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theresacarr 's review for:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
by Thornton Wilder
What a treat. I picked up this book from my mother's bookshelf after first reading "Our Town" about a year ago. She'd studied it in a Journalism intensive -- the point was to think about journalism as a compact literary art in its own right, and that fiction had something to teach all writers. I think I'll return to it later to study it myself. You can definitely detect Wilder's playwright background; the story is propelled by action, but in between are some incredible insights into human character and the nature of things that can be said, not just intimated. Given the framing device of the priest trying to decide if these victims of the act of God deserved to die, the omnipotent narrator ... popped off.