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The Eighth Day
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9780060088910
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jan 1 2007
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Thornton Wilder's renowned 1967 National Book Award-winning novel features a foreword by John Updike and an afterword by Tappan Wilder, who draws on unique sources as Wilder's unpublished letters, handwritten annotations in the margins, and other illuminating documentary material.
In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation away from family and friends, in the town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched 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.
At once a murder mystery and a philosophical story, The Eighth Day is a suspenseful and deeply moving (New York Times) work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic.
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