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Alexander's Bridge

Author
Willa Cather
Read by
James Harrington
Language
English
Length
2 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781802561340
Published
27 October 2024
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Ambition
  • identity
  • engineering
  • romance
  • inner turmoil
  • career
  • former lover
  • emotional strain
  • personal conflict
  • desire

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In "Alexander's Bridge," Willa Cather crafts a poignant narrative of ambition and inner turmoil. Follow Bartley Alexander, a successful bridge engineer whose life seems enviable, yet is fractured by a rekindled romance with a former lover. As he balances a demanding career and personal conflicts, the emotional strain threatens to unravel his stability. Cather's debut novel explores the delicate architecture of identity, the passions that bind us, and the inevitable cost of unresolved desires.

Author

Willa Cather was an American Pulitzer Prize winning author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Antonia. Although Cather began her writing career as a journalist, she made a distinction between journalism, which she saw as being primarily informative, and literature, which she saw as an art form.

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