Author: Willa Cather Year: 1912 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic
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ISBNs: 9781600965562 9780307739667 1600965563 030773966X |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his American wife--a cold woman with clearly defined standards--and Hilda Burgoyne--an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's relationship with Hilda gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor and eventually proves disastrous. (He is with Hilda when a messenger, unable to find him, fails to warn him that a bridge he is constructing is about to collapse.)
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