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  4. Romance

The Bridges of Madison County


On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with the Iowa house wife, Francesca Johnson, during four days of love, magic, and beauty.This is the story of Robert Kincaid, a wandering magazine photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, an farm wife born in Italy waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again.When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. Their encounter, fraught with dangers, survives only in their psyches. Both know that what could have been, should have been, could not be. Yet, hearts persist, tickling both characters' minds. Both remember a few stolen moments when two souls sang in perfect harmony, but through circumstance must not sing again.The romantic classic of the 1990's.

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Saranya Iyer Reviewed on: 20-12-2018
Bridge to two hearts

It is really hard to put down a book which gets extremely close to your heart. Well, it felt really challenging to me knowing that I will have to part my ways from this extraordinary experience I had, the journey to Iowa into the lives of Kincaid and Francesca and those covered bridges. I have recorded so many memories in my notebook about this extraordinary jewel that I now officially can bid goodbye. At times I have pondered about how it would be to live like Kincaid. The photographer with his passion and the way he calls himself as last cowboy to dwell in this fast growing computer world. Francesca taught me to live with those old dreams and hold on to it like she did. Thank you @bookelphia for giving me this awesome experience. It is my first book from your library and the firsts' are extremely special be it first job, first love or first baby. Lastly I would like to quote one of my favorite lines from the book "Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away"