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...Thousand Country Roads begins 16 years after the close encounter in Bridges. The two principals are spending their twilight years many miles apart: Robert Kincaid on an island in Puget Sound; Francesca Johnson, now a widow, dreaming away the long evenings on her Iowa farm. Bored with retirement and pushing 70, Kincaid sets off in his beloved pickup to see the fateful Roseman Bridge one last time. There's tension in the air, but not because we expect the two lovers to meet again--Waller made it clear in Bridges that they never do. The tension comes from...
...Bridges of Madison County" by Robert James Waller was a four-hanky production about the ill-fated love affair between Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson. Published ten years ago, it has been translated into 36 languages, with 12 million hardcover copies in print. Having spent over three years on the NYT bestseller list, it is now the No. 1 hardcover of all time, outselling "Gone with the Wind" and "Love Story." On April 23, John M. Hardy will publish "A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to the Bridges of Madison County." Says his publisher, "For a decade, millions of readers...
...classy, intimate birthday party for New Quincy resident Francesca D. Thanklin ’03 was invaded by “hordes of [Undergraduate Council] nerds” Friday night. Shell-shocked witness David B. Stevens ’03 provides a blow-by-blow account of the chilling dork attack: “I was talking with some people I met at the party when the door opened and about 20 of the sorriest-looking kids I’ve ever seen stumbled in. Within two minutes, they’d insulted the host and spilled a handle...
Macdonald, who is also a visiting assistant professor in social studies and women’s studies, helped draft the letter along with former fellows Denise K. Buell, an assistant professor of religion at Williams College, Francesca Sawaya, an associate English professor at the University of Oklahoma and Kathleen M. Sands, associate professor of religious studies at UMass Boston...
...name Johannes Vermeer now carries a vast aura of desirability and sweetness. It has become one of the most beloved way points of art history, like Rembrandt, Piero della Francesca or Watteau. Nothing, it seems, is going to change that, but it wasn't always so. Vermeer's reputation is almost wholly posthumous. One of the reasons why he is so admired and his pictures are so unattainable a goal for collectors is precisely the cause of his obscurity in the 19th century: the rarity of his work...