A Thousand Country Roads

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A Thousand Country Roads

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First edition
Author Robert James Waller
Publisher John M. Hardy
Publication date
April 2002
Pages 181
ISBN 0-9717667-1-1
OCLC 59488979
Preceded by The Bridges of Madison County

A Thousand Country Roads is a 2002 novel by Robert James Waller. It is the epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County which was published in 1992. The book was written in order to appeal to fan interest in the story of Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson after their four-day affair.[ citation needed ]

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Robert James Waller was an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He was also a photographer and musician.

<i>The Bridges of Madison County</i> 1992 best-selling novel by Robert James Waller

The Bridges of Madison County is a 1992 best-selling romance novella by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of a married but lonely Italian-American woman living on a 1960s Madison County, Iowa, farm. While her husband and children are away at the State Fair, she engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fictional. The novel is one of the bestselling books of the 20th century, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. It has also been adapted into a feature film in 1995 and a musical in 2013.

Contents

Plot introduction

The story relates what happened to Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson following their passionate and ill-fated love affair in The Bridges of Madison County . Kincaid initially finds himself with just memories of a lonely existence and of Francesca Johnson, for whom he felt a great passion. Pushed by these memories and desiring to give meaning to his life, Kincaid takes to the road again. A Thousand Country Roads explores his development as he explores himself and the world around him on his journey.

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