{"product_id":"alexanders-bridge-by-willa-cather-fiction-classics-romance-literary-9781606640166","title":"Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather, Fiction, Classics, Romance, Literary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlexander stood six feet and more in the archway, glowing with strength and cordiality and rugged good looks.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e There were other bridge-builders in the world, certainly -- but it was always Alexander's picture that the Sunday Supplement men wanted, because he looked as a tamer of rivers ought to look. Under his tumbled sandy hair his head seemed as hard and powerful as a catapult, and his shoulders looked strong enough in themselves to support a span of any one of his ten great bridges that cut the air above as many rivers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the pinnacle of his career, Bartley Alexander stands proudly in the public eye. Yet for those who know him well, a certain mystery lingers about him -- some strange aspect of his past well hidden from view . . . something, perhaps, that might even shake the mightiest of engineering triumphs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilla Cather, a journalist, editor and traveler born in 1876, established her place in the literary world with the publication in 1912 of \u003cem\u003eAlexander's Bridge, \u003c\/em\u003e her first novel. Her later masterpieces included \u003cem\u003eMy Antonia\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aegypan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781606640166\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Willa Cather","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107788091573,"sku":"9781606640166","price":11.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a486bd6d-11f6-4b4f-b606-65c5acea8eb1.jpg?v=1765862342","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/alexanders-bridge-by-willa-cather-fiction-classics-romance-literary-9781606640166","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}