The Eighth Day [electronic resource]
Wilder, Thornton2015
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Winner of the National Book Award, The Eighth Day moves back and forth through the 20th century, telling the story of a talented inventor accused of murder. In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent 20 months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the Rio Grande border town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he published 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.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda/Audible audio, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
ISBN:
9781489016300
Language:
English
BRN:
3655678