Alexander's BridgeKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010 M12 7 - 144 pages 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 21 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 45 |
Section 5 | 57 |
Section 6 | 73 |
Section 7 | 82 |
Section 8 | 90 |
Section 9 | 97 |
Section 10 | 104 |
Section 11 | 123 |
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