Death Comes for the Archbishop
Cather, Willa
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BOOK SUMMARY
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
BOOK SYNOPSIS
In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith
BOOK REVIEWS
A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification.
NEW YORK TIMES
The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.
Rebecca West
[Cathers] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishops cathedral. It is an art of making, of clear depictionof separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up . . . Cathers composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement.
from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt
From the Hardcover edition.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679728899
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679728894
Copyright: 1990
Dewey Decimal: 813/.52
Library of Congress: 89040540
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.65
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