Resumo de The Bridges Of Madison County

The Bridges Of Madison County is the all-time best selling work of fiction, having passed Gone With The Wind while still in hardcover. It was author Robert James Waller?s first novel.
Cast of characters: Francesca Johnson, Italian war bride, signora turned Iowa farm wife, whose dreams of romance remain unfulfilled; and Robert Kincaid, photographer from Bellingham, Washington on assignment, lost on the back roads near Winterset, Iowa.

He?s found five of Madison County?s six covered bridges. Number six, Roseman Bridge, remains elusive. It?s late on a hot August afternoon. He turns his old truck into the next driveway. Francesca, whose husband and children are at the Illinois State Fair for the week, on an impulse offers to ride with him to the bridge. They are instinctively drawn to each other.

Late that night, after Kincaid has gone, Francesca returns to the Bridge and leaves a note where she knows he will find it in the morning. In it, she invites him to supper the next evening. He accepts, trying not to appear too eager.

For the next four days and nights, Kincaid and Francesca are lovers. Her husband and children are due back. He has every reason for taking her back to Washington with him, and she has every reason for willingly getting into his old truck and leaving the farm life. Francesca, fearing the scorn Winterset will heap on her husband and children if she leaves, places family over romance and stays.

Robert Kincaid lives for Francesca, though; in her memory and in the occasional picture and biography in the magazine for which he writes and photographs. From a distance, she watches him age. After her husband dies, she tries to contact Kincaid but learns he?s simply disappeared.

Seventeen years later, she receives a package. Three cameras, a bracelet and silver medallion, and a letter, from the estate of Robert Kincaid. In the letter, left sealed for five years, Kincaid affirms the love for Francesca he?d held in his heart as he?d traveled and photographed the world. Also in the package is the note from Roseman Bridge, the one she?d left that night, that he?d saved.

Francesca, now alone in the Winterset farmhouse, then recreates each year on her birthday the night she and Robert Kincaid first made love. After her death, her adult children find, among her things, three notebooks worth of memories of her four days with him, and her thoughts of him. There?s also a letter, in which she reveals the affair to her children, and explains how she?d given up Kincaid to keep her family intact.

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