The Bridges of Madison County

THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY....is the story of Robert Kincaid, a worldclass 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 ills 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 of uncommon and stunning beauty, 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 has put Robert James Waller in the forefront of this country's fiction writers.

This used book is in very good condition.