What is The Bridges of Madison County?
{{italictitle}} {{unreferenced|date=November 2012}} {{Infobox Book | | name = The Bridges of Madison County | author = [[Robert James Waller]] | image = Pontemadison.jpeg | image_caption = 1st edition | country = [[United States]] | language = [[English Language|English]] | publisher = [[Warner Books]], Inc. | pub_date = 1992 | media_type = Print ([[Hardcover]] & [[Paperback]]) | pages = 192 pp | isbn = 0-446-51652-X | dewey = 813/.54 20 | congress = PS3573.A4347 B75 1992 | oclc = 24246926 | followed_by =[[A Thousand Country Roads]] }} '''''The Bridges of Madison County''''' is a 1992 [[book|fictional novel]] written by [[United States|American]] [[author]], [[Robert James Waller]]. The book was [[publishing|published]] by [[Warner Books|Warner Books, Inc]]. In the first chapter, “The Beginning,” the author misleads the readers by saying that the book is a true story. It is actually a work of [[fiction]]. The main character, Kincaid, has the same first name as author and is a [[photographer]] and an [[artist]], as was Robert James Waller. The book is a love story about an [[Italy|Italian]] woman, Francesca Johnson, a [[farm]]er’s wife, who falls in love with Robert Kincaid, a photojournalist from [[Bellingham, Washington]] over a four-day period. The story is set in [[Madison County, Iowa]]. Winterset, the nearby town, is quite small, according to the book. The novel has been [[translation|translated]] into 25 [[language]]s and has sold 50 million copies worldwide. It was on the [[New York Times]] best seller list for 164 weeks from 1992 until 1995. The story was made into a [[The Bridges of Madison County (movie)|movie]] in 1995, [[movie director|directed]] by [[Clint Eastwood]]. [[Meryl Streep]] plays Francesca Johnson and Clint Eastwood plays Robert Kincaid. == Main Characters == ===Francesca Johnson=== Francesca Johnson is a [[conservatism|conservative]] Italian woman in her mid-forties, living a quiet, conventional