Death Comes for the Archbishop (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Willa Cather
- First Published: 1927
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction, Character study, Novel
- Subjects: Colonialism, Nineteenth century, Missions or missionaries, Religion, Native Americans or American Indians, Christianity, New Mexico, Southwest, Catholics or Catholic Church, Mexico or Mexicans, Clergy, Priests, Deserts, Frontier or pioneer life, Religious life, Cathedrals
- Locales: Canada, Arizona, New Mexico, Southwest (U.S.)
Death Comes for the Archbishop is the book that Cather believed to be her finest work. Like The Professor's House, it is a novel that explores the life of a man and draws on the American Southwest for its setting. Here the similarity ends, however, as the tone of the two books is quite different.
Unlike the earlier books, Death Comes for the Archbishop celebrates the life choices of its central characters, finding in the lives of Father Joseph Vaillant and Father Jean Marie Latour a simple dignity and extraordinary fulfillment.
Cather based her story...
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