Lit crits, those old prunes, scratched their high foreheads at the success of Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County. This tale of middle-age passion -- in which a roving photographer, Robert Kincaid, has a volcanic three-day affair with Francesca Johnson, an Italian woman who has lived for 20 years as an Iowa farmwife -- was filled with clichas masquerading as erotic eruptions. But Waller knows the secret of romance novels. He writes the way people feel and think when they are first in love-as if every emotion had the force of God's creation, as if such shivers had never...
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