The Bridges of Madison County | Characters
The two central characters are Robert Kincaid, a free-lance photographer, and Francesca Johnson, a farm wife living in Madison County, Iowa. The entire novel revolves around their meeting and subsequent four-day "affair" during mid-August 1965.
Robert Kincaid was born in Barnsville, Ohio and was the only child of a couple now both deceased. In the 1950s he married Marian, a coffee-house folk singer in Seattle fourteen years his junior. After five years the union collapsed under the pressures brought about by his frequent absences as a traveling photographer, and for the past nine...
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