| Author: | Willa Cather | ISBN: | 9780307831965 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | January 16, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Willa Cather |
| ISBN: | 9780307831965 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | January 16, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
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.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
