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Alexander's Bridge was Willa Cather's first book and one of her best. Bartley Alexander was the world's leading bridge contractor, something that was considered an incredible skill in the first 20th hundred years. Alexander has the strength and regret that weave throughout Cather's male character types much as they do through those of her modern authors, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Dreiser, Anderson, Lewis, among others. Mrs. Alexander has the strength and forbearance of Cather's feminine character types, shown off most evidently after the great bridge collapses along with Alexander himself. The book bathes its locations in a glow reminiscent of a lovely Impressionist painting, filled with light and luminosity. Boston has never appeared more glorious than in her information, as you example.The book starts with great strength but with a forbidding air. It ends as a great Greek episode with the collapse of the hero and the literal collapse of his great work. This is the Cather novel to begin with.
