Alexander's bridge (1st Vintage Classics ed.)

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.BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.