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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Death Comes for the Archbishop Hardcover - 1984

by Willa Cather


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Introduction by A. S. Byatt 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.

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  • Title Death Comes for the Archbishop
  • Author Willa Cather
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition REPRINT.
  • Pages 299
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Modern Library, New York
  • Date 1984-07
  • ISBN 9780394605036 / 0394605039
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5 x 0.9 in (19.05 x 12.70 x 2.29 cm)
  • Reading level 1150
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Christian fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 83022034
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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