Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library) - Hardcover

Cather, Willa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679600507 ISBN 13: 9780679600503

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1993

Synopsis

In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour becomes Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico, and over the next forty years he faces the lawlessness and loneliness of the frontier as he tries to spread his faith

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Review:

"A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification."--NEW YORK TIMES"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us."--Rebecca West"[Cather's] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop's cathedral. It is an art of 'making, ' of clear depiction--of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up . . . Cather's composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement."--from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt

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A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification. NEW YORK TIMES The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us. Rebecca West [Cather s] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop s cathedral. It is an art of making, of clear depiction of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up . . . Cather s composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement. from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt"

A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification. --The New York Times

"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us. Rebecca West

[Cather s] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop s cathedral. It is an art of making, of clear depiction of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up. . . . Cather s composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement. A. S. Byatt

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"A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification." --The New York Times

"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us." --Rebecca West

"[Cather's] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop's cathedral. It is an art of 'making, ' of clear depiction--of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up. . . . Cather's composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement." --A. S. Byatt

-A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification.- --The New York Times

-The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us.- --Rebecca West

-[Cather's] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop's cathedral. It is an art of 'making, ' of clear depiction--of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up. . . . Cather's composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement.- --A. S. Byatt

Book Description:

Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679600507
• ISBN 13: 9780679600503
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 356