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| Original Title: | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| ISBN: | 0679728899 (ISBN13: 9780679728894) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Jean Marie Latour, Joseph Vaillant |
| Setting: | Santa Fe, New Mexico(United States) New Mexico(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | William Dean Howells Medal (1930) |
Willa Cather
Paperback | Pages: 297 pages Rating: 3.91 | 28488 Users | 2527 Reviews
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| Title | : | Death Comes for the Archbishop |
| Author | : | Willa Cather |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Vintage Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 297 pages |
| Published | : | June 16th 1990 by Vintage (first published 1927) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. Novels. American. Religion |
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Oh... my... God. This is beautiful. I'm only halfway through it but I don't care how it ends; every chapter is so complete in itself, every word such unmitigated pleasure that I would be stunned – absolutely floored – if Cather somehow fumbled the ball in the next 150 pages. This is it. The work of a writer with nothing to prove. A writer so humble, her words so transparent, that she seems to disappear behind the curtain of the text, her elegant shadow barely visible in its folds. At age twenty, hearing Nina Simone sing 'Black is the Colour of My True True Love's Hair', I felt my heart couldn't contain that song; it must consume me. Now I feel the same about Death Comes For the Archbishop. It's bigger than me. Will I ever comprehend it? Will I ever be wise enough, my heart big enough, my life lived enough? Also in my twenties, I read I Heard the Owl Call My Name with wonder; now I find that book is like a single episode in this one. Cather's prose is so sensual, her transmitting of physical experience so direct, that I feel I have just returned from a New Mexico all gold and orange and green and baking in stark sunlight as I ride my mule towards shelter behind cool cloister walls. Some books resist analysis, the smart review, the quick response. Many years from now I will still be groping for a sober word to say about this. Out and out love is all I can give it right now. An absolute masterpiece. You ask me, she's second only to Poe in the Great American Writer stakes.Rating Of Books Death Comes for the Archbishop
Ratings: 3.91 From 28488 Users | 2527 ReviewsCriticism Of Books Death Comes for the Archbishop
Coming to the end of this book was like a sad farewell to some very good friends. Father Joseph, Father Letour, their many friends and acquaintances who built solid and strong relationships with them over the years, and their country. Oh my. Their beautiful country.Father Joseph and Father Letour, both originally from France, were sent to the land of New Mexico shortly after it had been annexed. They were young men whose mission was to bring spiritual counsel and comfort to the people of this14. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather published: 1927format: 300 page Vintage paperback from 1971acquired: from my in-laws, who probably bought it in 1971read: Feb 19-26time reading: 6 hr 51 min, 1.4 min/pagerating: 4My Listy review: My first Cather hits all sorts of uncomfortable spots - missionaries, superiority of the religious and of western European culture. But Cather won me over because she was a great writer, humbled to the historical facts and to the landscape. She captures
What can I say about this book? It was beautiful, it was peaceful, it was perfect. A book I will re-read periodically, when I need to leave the world behind.There is no real plot other than the lives of two French priests who come to Santa Fe in 1850 to create a Catholic mission to serve the Indians and Mexicans. Father LaTour and Father Vaillant will be riding their mules in my head forever, spreading kindness.Beautiful, peaceful, perfect.
This book is a real monument, we are not talking only of Faith, but of friendship, of love for people, for a land, that is the New Mexico. I read this book deliberately slowly, because in parallel I have turned to research the history of Old Mexico and the new Mexico... every historical event reported or references to precise geographical areas, was for me a real and historical discovery that Willa Cather makes us to know.The story of these two priests, Father Latour and Father Valillant, who
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Although I have read this book before, that was long enough ago that this was essentially like reading the book for the first time.I believe this is the fifth of Cather's books that I have read (this both the first and the most recent) and confirms my appreciation for her skills in presenting the landscapes of the American West, the developing American way of life as it pushes west, and the varying and various peoples who lived on and from the land. Cather had mentioned the canyons of the
My only previous experience of reading Cather was last year, when I enjoyed My Ántonia. This book is very different, but shares the same frontier spirit and once again allows Cather the space to indulge her descriptive talents. This one is largely a factual story, although she changed the names of her leading characters. The Archbishop of the title Jean Latour can only be Jean-Baptiste Lamy, the first Bishop of New Mexico, and his vicar (and later Bishop in Colorado) Joseph Vaillant can only be
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