The Bridges Of Madison County

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We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? He stops at a farmhouse to ask for directions and meets Francesca Johnson, an attractive, middle-aged housewife alone for the week, her husband and children away at a state fair. The Bridges of Madison County is set up as being told in the present day as a true story about the past. Thereafter, the narrator locates a musician friend of Robert’s, who says that Robert had told him of their love affair, and he composed a musical piece for Robert about it, which Robert loved to listen to in the months prior to his death.

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I don’t get why a photographer, albeit a “ shamanlike” free spirit, sees himself as “ one of the last cowboys”, devoted to “ the old ways”, let alone why it was such a big deal. A quote from the review comparing the two books appears on the front cover of the first edition in 2016.Obviously, Waller is pandering to the dowdy housewives among us who yearn to have a handsome, worldly man who sees us for the fascinating women we believe ourselves to be. The next day at dawn, Robert shoots several rolls of film at Roseman Bridge, where he removes someone’s note from the bridge housing and visits a second bridge, where he takes more pictures.

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I still adore the friend, and have liked plenty of other books she recommended, but I was actually ANGRY with her for WEEKS for causing me to have read this book. Waller ignores the fact that every man (even the jerkiest of jerks) can be wonderful for the first four days. The Bridges of Madison County received multiple comparisons to Erich Segal's Love Story (1970) for its plot and prose. Several times, especially towards the end, I was moved, but simultaneously felt manipulated by the author's overwriting and purple prose.

The provocative opening takes a dark turn when Lily receives a warning about Ryle’s intentions from his sister, who becomes Lily’s employee and close friend.

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In The New York Times, Brigitte Weeks said that Bridges had appealed to "middle-aged, world-weary people" in a manner similar to the writings of James A.

She goes on to discuss the fact that the idealized courtship phase of love, like that presented in The Bridges of Madison County, is what people often hope for, as they believe that is when their yearning is complete and they have reached the goal line.

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Both men liked that LaGravenese's script presented the story from Francesca's point of view; Spielberg then had LaGravenese introduce the framing device of having Francesca's adult children discover and read her diaries. For Rolling Stone, Peter Travers said that Waller's prose was modeled on Walt Whitman's work, but instead resembled a greeting card. As scripted by Richard LaGravenese ( The Fisher King), the Madison County film has a slightly riper theme than the book's. Many women also know that, deep down, they would probably make the same decision as Francesca, especially for the sake of their children.A beautiful love story, four days between parentheses in the life of Robert and Francesca, a tale of responsibilities, renunciation, family, and self-sacrifice.