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Alexander's Bridge

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Publishing Details

Full Title:

Alexander's Bridge

Contributors:

By (Author) Willa Cather

ISBN:

9780307739667

Publisher:

Random House USA Inc

Imprint:

Random House USA Inc

Publication Date:

7th December 2010

Country:

India

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary

Dewey:

FIC

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

144

Dimensions:

Width 133mm, Height 203mm, Spine 10mm

Weight:

162g

Description

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.

Author Bio

Willa Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, April Twilights, a collection of poems, was published, and two years later The Troll Garden, a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including O Pioneers!, My ntonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the Archbishop), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours in 1923. She died in 1947.

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