Alexander's Bridge

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Willa Cather

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The first book written by American novelist Willa Cather is named Alexander's Bridge. Bartley Alexander is a well-known bridge builder and construction engineer going through a midlife crisis. After being married to Winifred, Bartley brings back his relationship with an old flame in London, Hilda Burgoyne. Bartley's sense of propriety and honor is wounded by the situation. While some of the chapters are interesting an amazing, others can create thrill and panic among the readers. With so much of twists and turn the story creates excitement among the readers. In Alexander's Bridge, Willa Cather's attempts to compile many of her classic thoughts into a single draft at an affordable price so everyone can read it. The narrative was a "black and white western," but its main themes were truth and ethics.

Author Biography:

Willa Sibert Cather was a famous American writer known for her substantial novels. She was born in 1873 in the Back Creek Valley near Winchester, Virginia. Her father's name was Charles Fectigue Cather and belonged from Wales. Her mother's name was Mary Virginia Boak, and she was a former school teacher. When Cather was twelve months old, her parents moved to Willow Shade, a Greek Revival-style home given to them by her paternal grandparents. Willa Cather has six siblings namely Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie. She was close to her brothers compared to her sisters. She graduated from Red Cloud High School in 1890. To enroll at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she later moved to Lincoln. In 1896, she moved to Pittsburgh where she worked as a writer in a women's magazine, Home Monthly. A year later, she became a telegraph editor and critic for the Pittsburgh Leader and frequently contributed poetry and short fiction to The Library. She also started teaching Latin, algebra, and English in Pittsburgh for a year. During World War I in 1923, she got a Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours.

Release date Australia

January 3rd, 2023

Author

Willa Cather

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

Dimensions

140x216x5

ISBN-13

9789357485111

Product ID

36640305

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