Alexander's Bridge

Resumen del libro

Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's first novel, is a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. Published in 1912, just a year before O Pioneers! made 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.

Biografía del autor

Wilella Sibert Cather (Black Creek Valley, Virginia, 7 de diciembre de 1873 - Nueva York, 24 de abril de 1947), más conocida con el nombre de Willa Cather, fue una escritora estadounidense de novelas y de relatos. En 1923 ganó el Premio Pulitzer por Uno de los nuestros (1922), una novela ambientada en la Primera Guerra Mundial. Su obra maestra es Mi Ántonia (1918).