Alexander's Bridge Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author) |
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ISBN: 030773966X ISBN-13: 9780307739667 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: December 2010 Click for more in this series: Vintage Classics |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Vintage Classics |
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.32" W x 7.99" L (0.36 lbs) 144 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
Features: Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
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Publisher Description: 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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