Bridges Book


The Bridges of Madison County:
The Novel

The 171-page hardcover novel written by Robert James Waller has been translated into 25 languages and over 12 million copies have been sold worldwide! On the New York Times Best Seller list for 3 years (and number 1 for 38 weeks), it topped Gone with the Wind in 1995 as the best-selling fiction book of all time (in hardcover, no less).


Robert Waller

Robert James Waller

Guitar-picker, photographer, ex-business school professor, and author of the best-selling hardcover of all time--meet Robert James Waller. In 1992 Warner Books published his first novel, The Bridges of Madison County, which spent almost 150 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Waller says he writes about "ordinary people, the kind you meet in a checkout line at the hardware store," and about those certain moments in which "the ordinary can take on rather extraordinary qualities." In his spare, straightforward stories, men and women struggle with love, hope, disappointment, responsibility -- everyday issues which touch us all -- all rendered at once both profound and intimate through prose of unaffected, moving simplicity.

Other Works by Robert James Waller:


A Thousand Country Roads
(Bridges epilogue)

April 2002


Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

Oct. 1995


 Border Music

Feb. 1995


Old Songs in
a New Cafe

April 1994

 
Slow Waltz in
Cedar Bend

Nov. 1993

Thousand Country Roads Book

Squeeze Book

Border Music Book

Old Songs Book

Slow Waltz Book


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