The Eighth Day
Thornton Wilder, 1967
A murder charge in a small Illinois town becomes Wilder's long argument with providence: how much of a life is chosen, how much is handed to us, and what the worst of it is for.
Thornton Wilder
Wilder won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth.
Feels like awe, society and unease.
What kind of love would refuse to spare you anything.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery … He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Books by Thornton Wilder
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