“VIVIDLY ROMANTIC … WALLER IS AN AMAZING STORYTELLER.”
—Washington Post
“LYRICAL … SENSUOUS AND SENSITIVE … A TALE OF LASTING LOVE.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“IT GLOWS….BRIDGES proves that wondrous things can be wrought by chance and candlelight.”
—Miami Herald
“ELOQUENT, EMOTIONAL, AND TOUCHES THE HEART…. I couldn’t put it down.”
—Barbara Taylor Bradford
“ONE FROM THE HEARTLAND: ROBERT JAMES WALLER’S RUSTIC LOVE STORY IS REACHING OUT AND TOUCHING PEOPLE.”
—People
“LIKELY TO MELT ALL BUT THE MOST DETERMINED CYNICS…. A POIGNANT STORY, MOVING PRECISELY BECAUSE IT HAS THE RAGGED EDGES OF REALITY.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY speaks volumes about hope…. It tells us things we already knew deep in our hearts!”
—Los Angeles Daily News
“A BEAUTIFULLY TOLD LOVE STORY that is powerful and memorable in its simplicity.”
—Rocky Mountain News
“THIS HAUNTING FIRST NOVEL IS A MEMORABLE, MAGICAL READ…. AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY.”
—Cleveland Plain Dealer
“POWERFUL … BELIEVABLE…. Their story is as poignant as Tristan and Isolde’s, or that of Psyche and Eros—and far more likely.”
—Columbus Dispatch
“EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE COMES A MAGICAL STORY, AN EXQUISITE JEWEL OF A BOOK, A PIECE OF FICTION THAT MORE THAN MAKES UP FOR ALL THE ORDINARY BOOKS ONE USUALLY READS. SUCH A BOOK IS THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY.”
—Indianapolis News
“AS PERFECT AS A TEAR.”
—Orlando Sentinel
“IF YOU BELIEVE IN FATE … IF YOU’RE A ROMANTIC … YOU WILL FIND THIS LOVE STORY AN OASIS OF JOY.”
—Kansas City Star
“PASSIONATE AND SENSITIVE … written with a very sure hand … and a rare, straightforward delicacy.”
—Milwaukee Journal
“A REALLY SUBLIME LOVE STORY THAT INVOLVES SACRIFICE, PAINFUL CHOICES, AND BEING SILENT ABOUT WHAT MATTERS MOST.”
—Seattle Times
“ENTHRALLING AND DELIGHTFUL … READ IT WITH YOUR HEART!”
—Mary Higgins Clark
“OLD-FASHIONED … POIGNANTLY EROTIC…. REMINDS READERS OF THE PRECIOUS VIBRANCY OF THE HUMAN EXISTENCE.”
—San Jose Mercury News
“THIS IS A SMALL GEM OF A BOOK, one that you could easily run through in a lazy afternoon on the patio. But don’t. Savor each page as you would a sip of fine wine, for the author has fashioned an old-fashioned love story that grabs your mind and heart and won’t let go.”
—Toledo Blade
“MORE THAN A ROMANCE NOVEL … IT CARRIES STRENGTH, WISDOM, AND TRUST—ALL IN A STUNNING SPIRIT.”
—San Antonio Express-News
“A NOVEL SO FILLED WITH INSIGHT and shy sensitivity that we experience an epiphany: the realization that this is what love is all about, told to us in a story by an author whose understanding seems to tap some vast universal truth.”
—Sunday Oregonian
“BRIDGES IS A WONDER…. The lovers’ dance between Robert and Francesca is subtle and intelligent and achingly sweet and slow enough to keep a permanent flutter in the cellar of your gut…. What else to say but that this tale is absolutely lovely.”
—Wichita Eagle
“EMOTIONAL, POIGNANT, AND SPARELY ELOQUENT … illuminates the romance and the sexual passion with fluid grace … a lovely piece of writing.”
—Des Moines Sunday Register
“A FLAT-OUT, OLD-FASHIONED LOVE STORY, WITH ALL JETS BLAZING AND DUAL EXHAUSTS. Waller held me still in admiration for the length of the book.”
—Reynolds Price
“A LOVE STORY THAT WILL HAUNT YOU— ENCHANT YOU. This rare and illuminating work is an achievement that places Robert Waller in the forefront of this country’s new fiction writers. Read it, please. That is not an order; it is this review’s prayer.”
—Tulsa World
“PASSIONATE … a book that will be picked up again and again to hear the poetic flavor of Waller’s prose.”
—Milwaukee Sentinel