Death Comes for the Archbishop

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Death Comes for the Archbishop
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Willa Cather
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:256
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreClassic fiction (pre c 1945)
Religious and spiritual fiction
Roman Catholicism and Roman Catholic churches
ISBN/Barcode 9781784874452
ClassificationsDewey:813.52
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage Classics
Publication Date 5 September 2019
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

A moving testament to friendship, published for the first time by Vintage Classics as part of our Willa Cather series. A portrait of an enduring friendship, from one of America's most celebrated novelists.'Quite simply a masterpiece' Daily Telegraph Two priests are despatched from Rome to New Mexico to reinvigorate Catholicism among the locals, knowing little of the challenges that await them. Over almost four decades they encounter a rich variety of people, from rebellious Mexican priests to steadfast Native Americans uninterested in changing their longstanding customs.'Its whole effect works slowly and mysteriously ... a major, and rare, artistic achievement' AS Byatt

Author Biography

Willa Cather was a Pulitzer prize-winning American writer, best known for her novels of Nebraskan frontier life. Born in 1873 near Winchester, Virginia, she moved with her family to Catherton, Nebraska in 1883, and the landscape went on to have a formative effect on her. Before becoming a full-time writer, Cather worked as a journalist, a magazine editor and a teacher.Her first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was published in 1912, followed by titles including O Pioneers! (1913); The Song of the Lark (1915); My ntonia (1918); One of Ours (1922), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize; Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) and Sapphira and the Slave Girl (1940). She died in New York in 1947.

Reviews

Its whole effect works slowly and mysteriously ... a major, and rare, artistic achievement -- A. S. Byatt Quite simply a masterpiece . . . I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells...This is a book which I go on rereading. -- A. N. Wilson * Daily Telegraph *