Book · 1927 · Fiction

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Name: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Author: Willa Cather

Vintage Books (Penguin Random House) · 297 pages

★ 7.0 editorial score

Two French priests give their lives to a diocese in territorial New Mexico. Cather dissolves plot into landscape and legend, and their friendship carries decades of desert riding without a raised voice.

Medium

Novel

Subject

Catholicism Missionaries Native Americans

Setting

New Mexico

Time

1927Depicts 1870s

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