| Summer reading - Thorton Wilder's "Bridge on the San Luis Rey" | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 11:37 am EDT 07/26/24 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 11:34 am EDT 07/26/24 | |
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| This was delightful and delightfully short. Very theater related as much of it takes place in the world of the theater and it is by a playwright and much of the source material is from another play by Mérimée, although based on real Peruvian historical characters. There is a great theater relationship between characters Uncle Pio (an echt Theater Queen) and his protegée the gifted and apparently amoral actress La Périchole (in the original Spanish - the "perra-chola"... a half indigenous, half European mixed race woman). As in the other early Thorton Wilder novels it is a delicious blend of close to the vest camp with an increasing tenderness towards its characters. | |
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