Willa Cather

Alexander's Bridge (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Construction engineer and world-renowned bridge builder Bartley Alexander has everything in mid-life: wealth, good looks, and fame. Yet he finds himself restless and discontented with lifeuntil he meets a former love from his student days and resumes his relationship with her.
Living a double life, Alexander is torn between Winifred, his American wifea cold woman with clearly defined standardsand Hilda Burgoyne, his alluring mistress in London who helps him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's affair, which eventually gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor, proves disastrous.
Willa Cather's first novela fascinating study of a man's growing awareness of the breach in his integrityis essential reading for fans of this great American novelist.
" ... exceptionally well-conceived and well written."Outlook
" ... told with a good deal of charm and skill."New York Times Book Review
" ... a story of brilliant and unusual power."McClure's

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486158662
• Artikelnr.: 39074073

Autorenporträt

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather (18731947) spent her formative years in Nebraska, which was at that time frontier territory. Her exposure to the region's dramatic environment and intrinsic hardships along with its diverse population of European-Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants shaped and informed much of her fiction.

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