Alexander's Bridge
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ISBN13: 9780192832146
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`he looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look.' Willa Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge (1912), tells the story of Bartley Alexander, a successful engineer torn between his duties to his career and his wife Winifred, 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. For readers who know Cather chiefly for her portraits of indomitable women on the Nebraska frontier - in such works as O Pioneers! and My Antonia - Alexander's Bridge shows the novelist 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 into 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 that emergence.
| ISBN-13 | 9780192832146 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 019283214X |
| Weight | 0.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 4.50 x 0.40 x 7.10 In |
| List Price | $8.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 152 pages |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Published On | 1997-12-11 |
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