Death Comes For The Archbishop

When Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, he finds a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indigenous 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–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.Author: Cather, Willa,author,Gaskill, Nicholas,introduction
Contributors: Cather, Willa,author,Gaskill, Nicholas,introduction
Binding: hardcover
Publication Date: 20251009
Release Date: 20251009
Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Published/Release Date: 9 Oct 2025
Format: Hardback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: Everyman
Author/Director/Artist: Willa Cather
Dimension (cm): 212x131x24 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 27x209x134 mm
Item Weight (g): 490
Package Weight (g): 480