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<p><p>(book Jacket Status&#58; Jacketed)<p>introduction By A. S. Byatt<p>willa Cather&#8217;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&#8212;while Contending With Unforgiving Terrain, Derelict And Sometimes Rebellious Priests, And His Own Loneliness.<p>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.</p>

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Author

Willa Cather, Willa Cather

Publisher

Virago Press Ltd

Published

1981

Language

EN

ISBN

9781844083725

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Religion, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.88 / 5 (307 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13