Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather (9780307739667)

Description - Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather

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.

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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