The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1968 • Popular Library

The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1968] POPULAR LIBRARY

1st mass market printing.

Vintage paperback in excellent condition.  

Clean, tight and seemingly unread copy w/ deep tanning to wraps and pages.  *Front endpaper initialed by orig. owner and dated 1968. 

Thornton Wilder’s renowned 1967 National Book Award–winning novel is at once a murder mystery and a philosophical story, a work of classic stature that has been hailed as a great American epic.

In 1962 and 1963, Thornton Wilder spent twenty months in hibernation, away from family and friends, in the town of Douglas, Arizona. While there, he launched The Eighth Day, a tale set in a mining town in southern Illinois about two families blasted apart by the apparent murder of one father by the other. The miraculous escape of the accused killer, John Ashley, on the eve of his execution and his flight to freedom triggers a powerful story tracing the fate of his and the victim’s wife and children.