Alexander's bridge
Willa Cather, Tom Quirk (Writer of added commentary), Frederick M. Link (Editor)
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
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2007
Psychological fiction
xii, 303 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
9780803211322, 0803211325
71223132
Alexander's bridge
Acknowledgments
Historical apparatus
Historical essay
Preface, 1922
Illustrations
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual essay
Emendations
Table of rejected substantives
Word division