Cornflower Book Group 2010: Volume 10

 

     Slightly later than it should have been posted, here is the CBG's October book:

Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, "a little masterpiece", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928. The story of the breaking of an Inca-woven osier bridge above a gorge on the road from Lima to Cuzco, and the investigation into the lives of those who perished by the Franciscan monk Brother Juniper, who witnessed the collapse, it examines whether "we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan."

    This is a short book (124 pages in my edition) and one which has attained classic status and influenced many other writers. Described as having a "deceptive clarity of style that masks pellucid depths", it sounds intriguing and very worthwhile reading.

    This should be readily available everywhere, though as I always say for Book Group books, if you can't get it locally The Book Depository will send it post-free, (and there's a Kindle version, too). Let's 'meet' back here to discuss it from Saturday, 23rd. October - that should give us enough time to read it as it's nicely compact!