 First edition | |
| Author | Robert James Waller |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Warner Books, Inc. |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp |
| ISBN | 0-446-51652-X |
| OCLC | 24246926 |
| 813/.54 20 | |
| LC Class | PS3573.A4347 B75 1992 |
| Followed by | A Thousand Country Roads |
The Bridges of Madison County (also published as Love in Black and White)[1] is a 1992 best-selling romance novel[2][3] by American writer Robert James Waller that tells the story of an Italian-American World War II war bride living on a farm in 1960s Madison County, Iowa. While her husband and children are away at the State Fair, she engages in an affair with a National Geographic photographer from Bellingham, Washington, who is visiting Madison County to create a photographic essay on the covered bridges in the area. The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fictional.
The novel is one of the bestselling books of the 20th century, with 50 million copies sold worldwide.[4] It was adapted into a feature film in 1995 and a musical in 2013.
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