Bridges of Madsion County

by Robert James Waller

(Fiction, 1992)

This is the story of Rovert 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 his 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 just of an Iowa summer and turns into her farm lane looking for directions, their illusions fall away and they are joined in an experience of uncommon and stunning beauty, an experience that will haunt them forever. -BOOK JACKET