The Bridges Of Madison County

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The narration is simple, poetic yet effective and incandescent. Each sentence is carefully worded and you cannot help notice some symbolisms. By design, Waller knew what he wanted: a simple yet heartfelt love story maybe to differentiate his work from the horrors of Stephen King, courtroom dramas of John Grisham or the espionage adventures of Robert Ludlum. One can likened The Bridges of Madison County to the description of the tune Robert's friend composed for him after Robert told him Francesca's story: I wanted to keep it simple, elegant. Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

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The Bridges of Madison County is a sensitive simple tragic love story. Yet it is not overbearing, cheesy nor mushy. It is a story of Francesca/Frannie, a lonely (but not sex-starved) housewife who did not think that at the age of 45, in just 4 short days, she would find her one true love. The man, Robert Kinkaid, a 52-y/o divorced travelling photographer also felt the same for her. What happened on those 4 days: each moment, each sight, each word, each action, each kiss, each time their bodies touched... they carried with them as treasured secret memories for 22 years living their own separate livesStaff. "Just the Winners, Please: Who Won the 68th Annual Tony Awards" Archived 2014-06-09 at archive.today playbill.com, June 8, 2014 Only little old ladies with blue permed hair need be wary of Waller's second foray into fiction: this time around, his saccharine tale of middle-aged lovers gets to sex scenes right away. When Continue reading » Eventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn't require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness” When her family leaves her home alone while they attend the State Fair for four days, she has a chance meeting with Robert Kincaid, an international photographer for National Geographic capturing the bridges in Madison County. Francesca directs him to the bridge he is looking for, and they spend the day exploring it and talking about life.

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I thought it was just fine— I was neither dramatically captivated by the love story, nor did I dislike it. Set in rural Madison County, Iowa, in 1965, Francesca Johnson is an Italian-American, married, stay-at-home mother of two children. She has lost her sense of self and purpose in these roles and, particularly, in her loveless marriage.

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In a world of reality and harshness it would be all to easy to forget what it really means to be human... This book isn't particularly well written but it is a beautiful story and there are some brilliant moments.

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Hughes, Howard (2009). Aim for the Heart: the Films of Clint Eastwood. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-902-7. Francesca’s post-mortem letter to her children can also come across as tone-deaf to their own needs in grieving her death, as well as how this news may forever change them— not necessarily for the better. Bridges of Madison County' author Waller dies at age 77". Reuters. 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 1 September 2023. Hoover is one of the freshest voices in new-adult fiction, and her latest resonates with true emotion, unforgettable characters and just the right amount of sexual tension.As the novel reaches its climax and the reader wonders, “Will she or won’t she?”, Francesca ultimately decides to stay In Iowa with her family. However, this encounter has left both Francesca and Robert forever changed. Waller had previously written a song about the dreams of a woman called Francesca. Sometime later, he was photographing bridges, and put the two together. He said he wrote the book in eleven days.