Willa Cather Book Club: Alexander's Bridge
Schedule
Thu Oct 21 2021 at 01:00 pm
Location
Wood Memorial Library & Museum | South Windsor, CT
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Join book blogger & podcaster Chris Wolak to discuss ALEXANDER'S BRIDGE.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 (Vintage edition description).
The Willa Cather Book Club meets quarterly and is led by Chris Wolak, a former college English professor who studied Cather at the University of Nebraska and is a member of the Willa Cather Foundation. All are welcome to join!
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Where is it happening?
Wood Memorial Library & Museum, 783 Main St, South Windsor, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
