The Eighth Day

Description:

**This is an amazing WHO-DONE-IT?? A definite ''can-not-put-down'' thriller!!** ***At the turn of the century, an Illinois man is sentenced to death for the murder of a close friend, but escapes to South America to build a new world for himself and his family.*** In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched The Eighth Day, ***a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two families blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other.*** The miraculous escape of the accused killer, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom triggers a ***powerful story tracing the fate of his, and the victim’s, wife and children.*** **At once a murder mystery and a philosophical story, The Eighth Day is a “suspenseful & deeply moving” *(front cover The New York Times)* work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic.**

subjects: Thornton Wilder,  National Book Award for Fiction - 1968,  Fiction,  American,  Adult,  Classic,  Literature,  Stories,  Book,  Books,  Novels,  Hardcover,  Paperback,  e-book,  Kindle,  Very GOOD,  Small southern,  Mining Town,  Crime,  Murder,  Mystery,  Who-done-it,  Thriller,  Suspense,  Miscarriage of Justice,  Drama,  Family,  Families,  Escaped convict,  NOVELAS ESTADOUNIDENSES,  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  City and town life,  Large type books,  National Book Awards

Places: Souther Illinois,  Algonquin,  South America

Times: 1885 to 1905