A review by infosifter
Alexander's Bridge, by Willa Cather

3.0

Bartley Alexander is an engineer who has become famous for the bridges he builds. He feels discontent and constrained by the demands of his high social position, so he pursues an affair with the woman he jilted when they were young so that he could marry a socially prominent lady. But it is not so much the woman he is chasing, rather it is his own lost youth. Alexander is not very sympathetic, but as the tension builds the reader is drawn into dreading his inevitable collapse.