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Title details for Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather - Available

Death Comes for the Archbishop

by Willa Cather
Claire Messud
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Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
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.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
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Series: Vintage Classics Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: August 24, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307805225
  • Release date: August 24, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9780307805225
  • File size: 4610 KB
  • Release date: August 24, 2011

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Kindle Book
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subjects

Classic Literature Fiction Literature Western

Languages

English

Levels

ATOS Level:7.9
Lexile® Measure:1150
Interest Level:9-12(UG)
Text Difficulty:6-9

Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic—almost mythic—story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
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.
BONUS: The edition includes an excerpt from The Selected Letters of Willa Cather.
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Classic Literature Fiction Literature Western