Alexander's Bridge
Author: Cather, Willa
ISBN: 9780307739667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Dec 2010
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Willa Cather's first novel -- a taut psychological drama set in the high society of Boston and London -- NOW IN VINTAGE CLASSICS FOR THE FIRST TIME.BR>BR>b>i>Alexander's Bridge, /i>Willa Cather's first novel,i> /i>is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections./b> br>br>Published in 1912, just a year before i>O Pioneers! /i>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.
ISBN: 9780307739667
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 07 Dec 2010
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
Willa Cather's first novel -- a taut psychological drama set in the high society of Boston and London -- NOW IN VINTAGE CLASSICS FOR THE FIRST TIME.BR>BR>b>i>Alexander's Bridge, /i>Willa Cather's first novel,i> /i>is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections./b> br>br>Published in 1912, just a year before i>O Pioneers! /i>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.
