Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good condition
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About This Item
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
ISBN-13: 9780394716794
ISBN-10: 0394716795
Publication Date: 4/12/1971
Publisher: Vintage #V-679
Paperback
4.25 x 7.2 inches, 301 pages
Willa Cather's story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry. When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tirelessly to spread his faith and to build a soaring cathedral out of the local golden rock -- while contending with unforgiving terrain, derelict and sometimes rebellious priests, and his own loneliness.
Death Comes for the Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape and those who are drawn to it suggest why Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier.
Synopsis
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory. The novel was included on Time Magazine's 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005 as well as the Modern Library's list of the 100 Best Novels.
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- Bookseller
- Worldwide Collectibles (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0203202404
- Title
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Author
- Willa Cather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Date Published
- 1971
- Pages
- 301
- Size
- 4.25 x 7.2 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Fiction, novel
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