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Alexander's Bridge
By (Author) Willa Cather
Melville House Publishing
Melville House Publishing
15th August 2012
United States
General
Fiction
FIC
Paperback
128
Width 129mm, Height 178mm
140g
Bartley Alexander, renowned engineer of bridges, is a man with a past who 'looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look.' Discovered by his mentor 'sowing wild oats in London,' he returned to America and the commission that made his name. Now, married to his wife of ten years, a chance encounter with actress Hilda Burgoyne (an almost forgotten love from his past) prompts a doomed attempt to recapture the boundlessness of his youth.
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was raised in Nebraska. She moved to New York to work for the renowned McClure's Magazine. Among her celebrated writing career are the novels My Atnonia, O Pioneers! and Death Comes for the Archbishop. She published Alexander's Bridge, her first book, in 1912.