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Death Comes for the Archbishop - (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (Paperback)

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  • From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
  • About the Author: WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!
  • 320 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Classics
  • Series Name: Vintage Classics

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About the Book



Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epic--and even mythic--qualities as it recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.



Book Synopsis



From one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times), an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud.

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.



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"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." --The New York Times

"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us." --Rebecca West

"[Cather's] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop's cathedral. It is an art of 'making, ' of clear depiction--of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up.... Cather's composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement." --A. S. Byatt




About the Author



WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.03 Inches (H) x 5.24 Inches (W) x .62 Inches (D)
Weight: .63 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: Vintage Classics
Sub-Genre: Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Author: Willa Cather
Language: English
Street Date: June 16, 1990
TCIN: 53742758
UPC: 9780679728894
Item Number (DPCI): 248-01-6772
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.62 inches length x 5.24 inches width x 8.03 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 0.63 pounds
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