Wilder, Thornton

Summary: The Eighth Day (1967), an enthralling novel in which Wilder revisits the small-town America of Our Town to stage a philosophical who-dunit; a wrongful conviction for murder and a daring rescue frame a meditation on the mysteriousness of justice, fate, and "the impassioned will," for which "nothing is impossible." Wilder's final novel, the semi-autobiographical Theophilus North (1973), is an...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.52 WIL