Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Cather, Willa
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679600507
- ISBN 13
- 9780679600503
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (1927) 1983. Hardcover. Slight fading along the very top edge of the book, tiny closed tear at the fold of dust jacket . Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Grey cloth with title and author imprinted on spine . 345 pages. Willa Cathers 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 rockwhile 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 609153
- Title
- Death Comes for the Archbishop
- Author
- Cather, Willa
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0679600507
- ISBN 13
- 9780679600503
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1927) 1983
- Keywords
- FICTION, CLASSICS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Classics;
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