Alexander's Bridge (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780803211322)

Engineer Bartley Alexander appears to have a happy life in Boston with a successful career and a beautiful wife. He has been commissioned to design the Moorlock Bridge in Canada, the most important project of his career. With the onset of middle age, however, he grows increasingly restless and discontented, so much so that while in London he recklessly reignites a love affair with the sweetheart of his youth, the Irish actress Hilda Borgoyne. Although the tryst allows Alexander to recapture an element that has been missing from his pedestrian life, the relationship torments his sense of morality and eventually proves disastrous. Alexander's Bridge explores the demands of Gilded Age society on the individual, as well as the capacity of the individual to violate his own standards of integrity. This Willa Cather Scholarly Edition provides an illuminating new framework for Cather's debut novel. The novel is edited according to standards set by the Committee for Scholarly Editions of the Modern Language Association and presents the full range of biographical, historical, and textual information now available, complete with illustrations and maps.

Author: Willa Cather
ISBN-10: 0803211325
ISBN-13: 9780803211322
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2007
Pages: 333
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.35w x 1.11d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/2007 pg. 135

About the Author
Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Bergson and American Culture: The Worlds of Willa Cather and Wallace Stevens. Frederick M. Link is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the textual editor of One of Ours, Obscure Destinies, and Shadows on the Rock.