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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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  • Published: 13 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781524721589
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Formats & editions
Paperback
20 Aug 2018
Hardback
28 Jan 2026
EBook
14 Nov 2023
EBook
5 July 2018
Audiobook
13 Sept 2016
Paperback
12 Dec 2023
Hardback
12 Dec 2023
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Cather's masterpiece of life, death and faith in New Mexico, new to Modern Classics

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.
  • Published: 13 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781524721589
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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About the author

Willa Cather

Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher. Her first novel, Alexander’s Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My Ántonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.
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Also by Willa Cather

Death Comes for the Archbishop
A Lost Lady
April Twilights and Other Poems
My Antonia
Alexander's Bridge
The Song of the Lark
Coming, Aphrodite!
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Praise for Death Comes for the Archbishop

Praise for Willa Cather:

  • "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

  • "[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."--from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt