num_pages: 171
description: There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.And so begins a story that you will never forget...THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY...is the story of Robert Kincaid, a world-class photographer, and Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife. Kincaid, fifty-two, is a photographer for National Geographic. A strange, almost mystical traveler of Asian deserts, distant rivers, and ancient cities, he is a man who feels out of harmony with time. Francesca Johnson, forty-five and once a young war bride from Italy, lives in the hills of south Iowa with flickering memories of her girlhood dreams. Each of them is content, yet when Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into her farm lane looking for directions, their illusions fall away, and they are joined in an experience that will haunt them forever.As the photographer Kincaid uses light to reveal not objects, but rather his own kind of truth, what occurs by the old bridges of Madison County becomes a prism transforming the ordinary emotions we think we understand into something rare and brilliant. The result is a passionate, deeply moving experience in lyrical prose, an achievement that puts Robert James Waller in the forefront of this country's new fiction writers.
language: English
title: The Bridges of Madison County
titlecomplete: The Bridges of Madison County
characters: Francesca Johnson, Robert Kincaid
genres: Classics, Novels, Drama, Adult, Historical Fiction, Chick Lit, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 94402
places: Madison County, Iowa
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Audie Award
category: Romance
publisher: Warner Books, Inc.