Title: The Eighth Day
Description: **This is an amazing WHO-DONE-IT?? A definite ''can-not-put-down'' thriller!!**

***At the turn of the century, an Illinois man is sentenced to death for the murder of a close friend, but escapes to South America to build a new world for himself and his family.*** 

In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched The Eighth Day, ***a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two families blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other.*** The miraculous escape of the accused killer, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom triggers a ***powerful story tracing the fate of his, and the victim’s, wife and children.***

**At once a murder mystery and a philosophical story, The Eighth Day is a “suspenseful & deeply moving” *(front cover The New York Times)* work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic.**
Subjects: Thornton Wilder, National Book Award for Fiction - 1968, Fiction, American, Adult, Classic, Literature, Stories, Book, Books, Novels, Hardcover, Paperback, e-book, Kindle, Very GOOD, Small southern, Mining Town, Crime, Murder, Mystery, Who-done-it, Thriller, Suspense, Miscarriage of Justice, Drama, Family, Families, Escaped convict, NOVELAS ESTADOUNIDENSES, American fiction (fictional works by one author), City and town life, Large type books, National Book Awards
Places: Souther Illinois, Algonquin, South America
Time periods: 1885 to 1905