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Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a peculiar masterpiece. Its chapters and themes interlock with such grace and necessity that the book seems more like a marvelous and free-standing mechanism - a jeweled music box or perfectly sprung wrist-watch - than like a novel. At the story's start Wilder creates a world and an over-arching theme. Over five chapters of only a few thousand words each, he proceeds to deftly populate the stage he has set. The parts fit together so perfectly that, as one gazes at the descriptive polish and intricate overlapping of plot and characterization, the force that underlies and propels the tale remains invisible until the very end.
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