Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (556 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679413197 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Verna Estes said This particular edition is poor: typos in every sentence. It is not my intention in this review to remark at any length on Cather's literary ability. Instead, I merely advise to anyone who plans on purchasing this book to purchase a different copy. This particular edition is poor in two ways.1. The only information the book offers other than the text itself is the publisher and date (Cassia Press, "This particular edition is poor: typos in every sentence" according to Verna Estes. It is not my intention in this review to remark at any length on Cather's literary ability. Instead, I merely advise to anyone who plans on purchasing this book to purchase a different copy. This particular edition is poor in two ways.1. The only information the book offers other than the text itself is the publisher and date (Cassia Press, 2009) and that i. 009) and that i. "Interesting look at early New Mexico and the southwest" according to Snowkey. I found this book very interested from an historical perspective. It is a fascinating book about the early Southwest, in particular New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and Mexico. Although the names of the characters are made up, Cather did her research and most of the hard facts are correct about the characters and the area. Willa Cather is considered one of the gr. Willa Cather on the arrival of the first Archbishop to New Mexico. Ms. Cather had an intimate knowledge of the Southwest region and she used a diary left by the actual priest (Lamy) who is the title character, the Archbishop Latour. I doubt a more beautiful description of the American frontier of 1850 has been written. She can spin a story based on historical truth that is nearly impossible to set asideher artistry rivals
From Library Journal Nebraska pulls out all the stops for this superb scholarly edition of Cathers 1927 novel. This edition includes a newly restored text along with several historical essays and explanatory notes by several scholars. Academic libraries supporting hardcore American literature curricula will want this volume.Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
ByattWilla Cather’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. S. 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—while contending with unforgiving terrain, derelict and sometimes rebellious priests, and his own loneliness.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.. (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)Introduction by A. 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 arr