Death Comes for the Archbishop -- Willa Cather

<b>Willa Cather's best known novel is an epic--almost mythic--story of a single human life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.</b> <p/>In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. In the almost forty years that follow, Latour spreads his faith in the only way he knows--gently, all the while contending with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. Out of these events, Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Willa Cather<br><b>Publisher:</b> Vintage<br><b>Published:</b> 06/16/1990<br><b>Pages:</b> 304<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.63lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.03h x 5.24w x 0.62d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780679728894<br><br><b>Accelerated Reader:</b><br><b>Reading Level:</b> 7.9<br><b>Point Value:</b> 12<br><b>Interest Level:</b> Upper Grade<br><b>Quiz #/Name: </b>10027 / Death Comes for the Archbishop<br><br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Booklist</i> 04/01/2000 pg. 1442<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><p><b>WILLA CATHER</b>, author of twelve novels, including <i>O Pioneers!, My Ántonia</i>, and <i>Death Comes for the Archbishop</i>, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in