Critical Praise

"After 10 long yeras, Robert James Waller takes us back to Bridges -- and it's worth the trip...Don't worry: Waller has not burned his Bridges. His gift is what it is: he writes about tough men and tough women with tough rows to hoe, characters just human enough to believe in and just godlike enough to fantasize about. And credit where credit is due, it works. Waller calls it 'a book of endings,' and that's apt. Roads has none of the pounding passion of Bridges but twice the pathos--it's a book about aging, a reprise in a minor key. Or put another way, it's less about the bridges, and more about the water under them."

——Time Magazine

"Passing years make crossing these Bridges sweeter...Waller is a serious writer who wrestles with the big issues. Death. Aging. Loneliness. The inevitable humiliations that physical frailty brings. And the fact that choosing one road in life means you sacrifice the pleasures and satisfactions that another path would have brought..now I understand why all those millions of people loved Waller's The Bridges of Madison County and probably will find pleasure in A Thousand County Roads."

——USA Today