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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)
by Willa Cather
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679728894 
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Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert.
Review:
“The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the universe around us.”
Rebecca West
Review:
“[Cather’s] descriptions of the Indian mesa towns on the rock are as beautiful, as unjudging, as lucid, as her descriptions of the Bishop’s cathedral. It is an art of ‘making,’ of clear depiction—of separate objects, whose whole effect works slowly and mysteriously in the reader, and cannot be summed up . . . Cather’s composed acceptance of mystery is a major, and rare, artistic achievement.”
from the Introduction by A. S. Byatt
From the Hardcover edition.
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vanessa vichitvadakan, October 30, 2007 (view all comments by vanessa vichitvadakan)
Cather's depictions of the landscape and New Mexico are at once dreamy and gripping. The action in this novel isn't really all that active-- it's slow, deliberate, and gentle but compelling nonetheless. I would read this again and again for her incredible descriptions and turns of phrase. It's the kind of descriptive writing that really makes me want to write well.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679728894
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Historical
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- American
- Subject:
- Novels and novellas
- Subject:
- Literature
- Subject:
- Historical - General
- Subject:
- New mexico
- Subject:
- Historical fiction
- Subject:
- Christian fiction
- Subject:
- Clergy
- Subject:
- Allegories
- Subject:
- New Mexico History 1848- Fiction.
- Copyright:
- 1927
- Series:
- Vintage Classics
- Series Volume:
- 88(26.4) (May 1988)
- Publication Date:
- June 1990
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 796x519x68 61
