Alexander's Bridge Paperback - 1977
by Willa Cather; Introduction by Bernice Slote
From the rear cover
Alexander's Bridge (1912), Willa Cather's first novel, tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between duty to his career and wife, and his passion for the Irish actress Hilda Burgoyne. In spare but often searing prose, Cather's taut novella traces a mid-life crisis of self-doubt and disappointment that ends in a spectacular catastrophe. Cather's portraits of indomitable women on the Nebraska frontier in the novels O Pioneers! and My Antonia are well-known, but Alexander's Bridge shows her working in another, equally important mode, using urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyse America's emergence as an international industrial power at the turn of the twentieth century. Both anxious and celebratory, Alexander's Bridge anticipates The Great Gatsby in trying to reckon with the social and emotional costs of a new era in American life.
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- Title Alexander's Bridge
- Author Willa Cather; Introduction by Bernice Slote
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 6th Printing
- Pages 140
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bison, Lincoln, Nebraska
- Date 1977-06-01
- ISBN 9780803258631 / 0803258631
- Weight 0.39 lbs (0.18 kg)
- Dimensions 7.94 x 5.26 x 0.39 in (20.17 x 13.36 x 0.99 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Boston (Mass.) - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 76056439
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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