Death Comes For The Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best-known novel, a narrative whose spare beauty achieves epic--and eve... (more)

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. (less)

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The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they or... (more)

The narrative follows Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph Vaillant, friends since their childhood in France, as they organize the new Roman Catholic diocese of Santa Fe subsequent to the Mexican War. While seeking to revive the church and build a cathedral in the desert, the clerics, like their historical prototypes, Bishop Jean Laury and Father Joseph Machebeuf, face religious corruption, natural adversity, and the loneliness of living in a strange and unforgiving land. (less)