Robert James Waller Libros

Mientras se dirige hacia una granja desconocida para preguntar una dirección, Robert Kincaid no puede sospechar que al final del camino arbolado le espera una experiencia única, irrepetible, que marcará su vida para siempre. Acostumbrado a la vida trashumante de fotógrafo profesional, Robert, a sus cincuenta y dos años, es un hombre que sólo se encuentra a gusto viajando por los lugares más exóticos del planeta. En esta ocasión, sin embargo, su trabajo le lleva a Madison County, un bucólico y apartado rincón de Iowa donde Francesca, dueña de la granja, vive una plácida madurez, añorando la Italia que dejó hace años para casarse con un soldado americano. La fuerte atracción que surge entre Robert y Francesca despierta en ellos ese tipo de emociones que se creen olvidadas, pero que habitan en cada uno de nosotros.

La historia de Clayton Price, un mercenario-francotirador retirado del ejército y de una pareja a la cual involucra en unos asesinatos y cómo deben de unir sus fuerzas los tres para poder huir de la justicia. “En serio, Luz era buena de verdad: tenía un corazón de oro y todo lo que hay que tener. Joder, si no era más que una simple campesina, una muchachita que trataba de procurarse lo mejor que ofrece la vida. Había que verla: la mayoría de veces se ponía tan guapa que cortaba la respiración, sobre todo si se adornaba con una flor en el pelo y se pintaba los labios con carmín de color rosa...” Fragmento extraído de la obra.

Michael Tillman era una persona atípica. Brillante miembro del mundo académico y, a la vez, opuesto a todo convencionalismo que coartara su libertad, fue el hombre que hizo renacer en Jellie Braden sus ansias de amar y de disfrutar cada momento de su vida. Pero Jellie tampoco era una mujer corriente. Algo en su actitud dejaba traslucir un enigma que había tendido una barrera entre ambos y que Michael se decidió a resolver sabiendo que de ello dependía lo que más le había importado en toda su vida: el amor de esa mujer. Aunque para conseguirlo tuviera que recorrer medio mundo.

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, Waller revisits one of the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society

On assignment shooting the covered bridges in Iowa, photographer Robert Kincaid falls in love with the Iowa house wife, Francesca Johnson, during four days of love, magic, and beauty. This is the story of Robert Kincaid, a wandering magazine photographer and free spirit searching for the covered bridges of Madison County, and Francesca Johnson, an farm wife born in Italy waiting for fulfillment of a girlhood dream. It shows readers what it is to love and be loved so intensely that life is never the same again. When Robert Kincaid drives through the heat and dust of an Iowa summer and turns into Francesca Johnson's farm lane looking for directions, the world-class photographer and the Iowa farm wife are joined in an experience of uncommon truth and stunning beauty that will haunt them forever. Their encounter, fraught with dangers, survives only in their psyches. Both know that what could have been, should have been, could not be. Yet, hearts persist, tickling both characters' minds. Both remember a few stolen moments when two souls sang in perfect harmony, but through circumstance must not sing again. The romantic classic of the 1990's.

Uncovers the internal and external factors that can lead ordinary people to commit extraordinary acts of evil. This book offers a comprehensive psychological view of how anyone can potentially participate in heinous crimes against humanity.

Sixteen years after Robert Kincaid and Francesca Johnson have agreed that their swift, passionate and deep love affair must end, they are still thinking of each other. Robert has never married, but continued his nomadic life as a photographer. He feels it is time to re-visit Roseman Bridge just to lay to rest his lingering love - not to SEE her as he doesn't wish to disturb the life she chose when she decided to stay with her husband and children. Francesca's husband has recently died and the children long left home. She takes her daily walk to Roseman and sees the back of a Landrover leaving - her heart stops for a second as she FEELS it was Robert. But he's gone. Meanwhile, teenager Carlisle feels it is time he looked for his biological father. His mother has never made a secret of the fact he was the result of a one-night stand. From the few details he has he tracks down Robert and introduces himself. Startled, but quite happy to have been a father, they have a few days to get to know each other - before Robert dies of a heart attack. Francesca receives a letter informing her of his death...

From Robert James Waller comes a wonderful collection of 19 essays--all of them as romantic, reflective, and timeless as readers have come to expect from the author of The Bridges of Madison County--a celebration of life and loss, of what things still can be.

A young drifter with a passion for solitude and carpentry, Carlisle McMillan purchases some land near Wolf Butte, South Dakota, a region considered sacred by the Sioux, and sets out to build a life for himself among the locals