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Alexander's Bridge (World's Classics) Paperback - 1997
by Cather, Willa
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Successful engineer Bartley Alexander is torn between his career, his wife, and his passion for an Irish actress. In the only critical edition available of Willa Cather's classic first novel, we see how Cather uses urban settings and the figure of the bridge-builder to analyze America's emergence as an international, industrial power at the turn of the century.
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- Title Alexander's Bridge (World's Classics)
- Author Cather, Willa
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 152
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford
- Date 1997
- Bookseller's Inventory # 019283214X.G
- ISBN 9780192832146
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
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.