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The Bridges of Madison County Robert James Waller Robert James Waller (born August 1, 1939, Rockford, Iowa) is an American author best known for The Bridges of Madison County, an enormously successful book in 1993. He is also a photographer and musician. Novels: The Bridges of Madison County (1992) (original UK Title Love in Black and White) Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (1993) ISBN 0-446-51653-8 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (1995) Border Music (1995) A Thousand Country Roads: An Epilogue to The Bridges of Madison County (2002) High Plains Tango (2005) The Long Night of Winchell Dear (2007) （from /wiki/Robert_James_Waller） Main characters Plot Summary While Francesca Johnsons husband and children are away at the Illinois state fair in the summer of 1965, Robert Kincaid happens to turn into the Johnson farm and asks Francesca for directions to Roseman Bridge. Francesca later learns that he was in Iowa on assignment from National Geographic magazine. She is reluctant seeing that hes a complete stranger and then she agrees to show him to the bridges. Gradually she talks about her life from being a war-bride from Italy which sets the pace for this bittersweet and all-too-brief (短暂的)romance of her life. They eventually fell in love .Through the pain of separation from her secret love and the stark isolation she feels as the details of her life consume her, she writes her thoughts of the four-day love affair which took up three journals. The journals are found by her children after the lawyer was going over Francescas will and all the contents. They produce a key to her hope chest in the bedroom which contained some of hers and Roberts things. The message they take from the diaries is to what you have to do to be happy in life. After learning that Robert Kincaids cremated remains were scattered off Roseman Bridge and that their mother requested that she too be cremated and her