Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)

by Willa Cather

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Vintage, 1990-06-16. Paperback. Good. All books shipped with tracking numbers and e-mail notifications.

Book summary

Cather's episodic novel, based on a true story but heavily fictionalized, is about the literal and spiritual journey of Bishop Lamy and his vicar in the American Southwest in the mid-1800s, and is a tribute to the efforts of the Roman Catholic Church to improve the lives of the Hopi and Navajo Indians in the area. Full of readable and fascinating stories, the novel is also, because of its bold and experimental use of allegory and symbolism, a prime example of modernism at its height.

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