Alexander\u2019s Bridge,\u00a0<\/i>Willa Cather\u2019s first novel,\u00a0<\/i>is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before\u00a0O Pioneers!\u00a0<\/i>made Cather\u2019s name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for.<\/p>\n
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>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[684,685],"product_tag":[],"composite_virtual":false,"composite_layout":"","composite_add_to_cart_form_location":"","composite_editable_in_cart":false,"composite_sold_individually_context":"","composite_shop_price_calc":"","composite_components":[],"composite_scenarios":[],"bundled_by":[],"bundle_stock_status":"instock","bundle_stock_quantity":null,"bundle_virtual":false,"bundle_layout":"","bundle_add_to_cart_form_location":"","bundle_editable_in_cart":false,"bundle_sold_individually_context":"","bundle_item_grouping":"","bundle_min_size":"","bundle_max_size":"","bundled_items":[],"bundle_sell_ids":[],"yoast_head":"\n