Alexander's Bridge

Alexanders Bridge Willa Cathers first novelis a taut psychological drama about the fragility of human connections. . Published in 1912 just a year before O Pioneers! made Cathers 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.