Overview
Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers made Cather's name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. The successful and glamorous life of Bartley Alexander, a world-renowned engineer and bridge builder, begins to unravel when he encounters a former lover in London. As he shuttles among his wife in Boston, his old flame in London, and a massive bridge he is building in Canada, Alexander finds himself increasingly tormented. But the threatened collapse of his marriage presages a more fatal catastrophe, one he will risk his life to try to prevent.
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- ISBN-13: 9780307739667
- ISBN-10: 030773966X
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: December 2010
- Dimensions: 7.99 x 5.32 x 0.47 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.36 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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