Dimensions
124 x 220 x 32mm
The brilliant later novels and never-before-published autobiographical writings of the author of Our Town
'The best thing he ever wrote,' observed Edmund Wilson of Thornton Wilder's National Book Award winner The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel that shows Wilder revisiting the small-town America of Our Town to fashion a philosophical whodunit. A wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue lead to a meditation on justice, destiny, and 'the impassioned will,' for which 'nothing is impossible.' Wilder's last novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an affectionate portrait of Newport, Rhode Island, in the 1920s and a playful, valedictory glance at Wilder's young manhood. This volume is rounded out with three never-before-published reminiscences taken from an unfinished autobiography, in which Wilder engagingly recalls his childhood stay at a boarding school in China, his time as an undergraduate at Yale, and the uneasy experience of visiting Salzburg not long before Austria was annexed by the Nazis.
