The Bridge Across Forever: A Lovestory - Hardcover

Bach, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0688039170 ISBN 13: 9780688039172

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1984

Synopsis

The author of "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" recounts his search for his dreamed-of soulmate, his detour into wealth and success, and his ultimate meeting with the woman with whom he has found new and intense love and enchantment

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Review

Best-selling author Richard Bach explores the meaning of fate and soul mates in this modern-day fairy tale based on his real-life relationship with actor Leslie Parrish. "This is a story about a knight who was dying, and the princess who saved his life", Bach writes in his opening greeting. "It's a story about beauty and beasts and spells and fortresses, about death-powers that seem and life-powers that are". Yes, it is all that, and more. On the earthly plane this is about the riveting love affair between two fully human people who are willing to explore time travel and other dimensions together even as they grapple with the earthly struggles of intimacy, commitment, smothering and whose turn it is to cook. Their love affair and happy ending inspired many enthusiastic fans. Years later, some of these fans were devastated to discover that this match made in heaven didn't manage to stick (the couple are no longer together). Bach explains that lovers don't have to stay married forever in order to be lifetime soul mates. Read this as a lesson about love's enchantments and possibilities, but don't count on this book to keep you and your mate on the bridge across forever. --Gail Hudson

Review

"To a public that desperately wants to believe in love, Bach says: Hang on. Take heart. There is such a thing as a soulmate." -- "The Atlanta Constitution"

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0688039170
• ISBN 13: 9780688039172
• Binding: Hardcover