{"product_id":"alexanders-bridge-paperback-3","title":"Alexander's Bridge - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexander's Bridge, \u003c\/i\u003eWilla Cather's first novel, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 1912, just a year before \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers! \u003c\/i\u003emade Cather's name, it features high society on an international stage rather than the immigrant prairie characters she later became known for. 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilla Cather was born near Winchester, Virginia, in 1873. When she was ten years old, her family moved to the prairies of Nebraska, later the setting for a number of her novels. At the age of twenty-one, she graduated from the University of Nebraska, and she spent the next few years doing newspaper work and teaching high school in Pittsburgh. In 1903, her first book, \u003ci\u003eApril Twilights, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of poems, was published, and two years later \u003ci\u003eThe Troll Garden, \u003c\/i\u003ea collection of stories, appeared in print. After the publication of her first novel, \u003ci\u003eAlexander's Bridge, \u003c\/i\u003ein 1912, Cather devoted herself full time to writing, and over the years she completed eleven more novels (including \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, My Ántonia, The Professor's House, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e), four collections of short stories, and two volumes of essays. Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours \u003c\/i\u003ein 1923. She died in 1947.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 7.99 x 5.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 07, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255743070457,"sku":"9780307739667","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ShK58pRqiP9780307739667.webp?v=1768725829","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/alexanders-bridge-paperback-3","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}