Death comes for the archbishop

Cather, Willa 1873-1947 (Author).

Summary: 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 suggest why Willa Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier. Told with a directness that overlays its profound artistry, this story of the nineteenth century missionary priest Father Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness shines from within by virtue of its clear devotion to the human idea. Introduction by A. S. Byatt. The archbishop in Santa Fe aids in the growth and development of the Southwest.

Item details

ISBN: 0679600507 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780679600503 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xi, 345 p. ; 19 cm.
Edition: Modern Library ed.
Publisher: New York : Modern Library, 1993.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The vicar apostolic -- Missionary journeys -- The mass at Ácoma -- Snake root -- Padre Martínez -- Donã Isabella -- The great diocese -- Gold under Pike's Peak -- Death comes for the archbishop.

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Subject:

Clergy Fiction
Allegories
New Mexico Fiction

Genre:

Historical fiction.
Christian fiction.

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