Alexander's Bridge - (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Alexander's Bridge, </i>Willa Cather's first novel, <i> </i>is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before <i>O Pioneers! </i>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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, <i>April Twilights, </i>a collection of poems, was published, and two years later <i>The Troll Garden, </i>a collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, <i>Alexander's Bridge, </i>in 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including <i>O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor's House, </i>and <i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i>), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for <i>One of Ours </i>in 1923. She died in 1947.
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