| Death Comes for the Archbishop Contributor(s): Cather, Willa (Author), Messud, Claire (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0679728899 ISBN-13: 9780679728894 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1990 Annotation: Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Christian - Western |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 89040540 |
| Lexile Measure: 1150 |
| Series: Vintage Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.24" W x 8.03" (0.63 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - New Mexico |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 10027 Reading Level: 7.9 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |