Heaven's My Destination - Softcover

Wilder, Thornton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060088893 ISBN 13: 9780060088897

Publisher: Perennial, 2003

Synopsis

Drawing on such unique sources as the author's unpublished letters, business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.

Meet George Marvin Brush—Don Quixote come to Main Street in the Great Depression, and one of Thornton Wilder's most memorable characters. George Brush, a traveling textbook salesman, is a fervent religious convert who is determined to lead a good life. With sad and sometimes hilarious consequences, his travels take him through smoking cars, bawdy houses, banks, and campgrounds from Texas to Illinois—and into the soul of America itself.

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Review

'The Apollo choices have been masterful. The list is thought-provoking, eye-opening, inspired and inspiring' The Big Issue.

'Children of faith, poets and saints, dot the cruel world, and give Wilder's novels a reticular tension, the suspense of a hidden design about to emerge' John Updike.

'A tale that's often hilarious, sometimes sad and one that's a fantastic read ... A wonderful story that allows the reader to see the wider picture while Brush constrains himself to his moral viewpoint' Nudge Book.

'A revival of interest is surely overdue for Heaven's My Destination ... Wilder's good-natured narrative makes reading this a pleasure' The Tablet.

About the Author

Thornton Wilder (1897-1975) was an accomplished novelist and playwright whose works, exploring the connection between the commonplace and cosmic dimensions of human experience, continue to be read and produced around the world. His Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of seven novels, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, as did two of his four full-length dramas, Our Town (1938) and The Skin of Our Teeth (1943). Wilder's The Matchmaker was adapted as the musical Hello, Dolly!. He also enjoyed enormous success with many other forms of the written and spoken word, among them teaching, acting, the opera, and films. (His screenplay for Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt [1943] remains a classic psycho-thriller to this day.) Wilder's many honors include the Gold Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the National Book Committee's Medal for Literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060088893
• ISBN 13: 9780060088897
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240