| Death Comes for the Archbishop: Introduction by A. S. Byatt Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author), Byatt, A. S. (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679413197 ISBN-13: 9780679413196 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1992 Annotation: 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. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 91058706 |
| Lexile Measure: 1150 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.22" W x 8.26" (1.01 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |