Her serene language, with its immemorial simplicity, gives the story a weight mere drama could never provide. If this sounds like a formula for boredom, it’s not. Listen online or offline with Android, iOS, web, Chromecast, and Google Assistant. Get instant access to all your favorite books. She compared the book to a legend, in which no event is given much dramatic weight. Death Comes for the Archbishop audiobook written by Willa Cather. Title: Death Comes for the Archbishop Author: Willa Cather A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook eBook No.: 0200491h.html Language: English Date first. The style and structure of this book are strange, unemphatic, as if Cather had simply laid the scenes side by side in a tapestry. Latour embarks on a decades-long effort to reform and reinvigorate the diocese. He will find the church there to be fragmented and corrupt, with priests taking wives and charging exorbitant fees to perform marriages. With an old friend, Father Vaillant, Latour sets out for Santa Fe. She based this book on the life of Bishop Jean Baptiste L’Amy - she calls him Father Latour - the French-born Ohio cleric who was assigned by the church to rebuild the faith in New Mexico after the territory was annexed by the U.S. The narrator is mediocre and this is one of the few Audible recordings that I found speeding up to 1.25 improved it.Cather at her most matter-of-fact and, as a consequence, her most powerful. Willa Cathers best known novel is an epic almost mythic story of a single human. But there is much contemporary American literature and a vast amount of literature from other parts of the world (UK, Continental Europe, Russia) that precedes it by a few decades that far surpasses this in depth and complexity of plot. Extremities of slightly soiled slipcase worn, else a very good example. 1927, BY WILLA CATHER MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The book is worth listening to as a way to widen exposure to a variety of American literature, in particular by a female author. page breaks & image links on/off First Edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop, 1927 by Willa Cather DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP The Works of. Along the way we meet some indigenous people and there is some reference to their terrible plight, as a result of the arrival of Europeans (centuries before) and more recent settlers from the US. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather, Signed (19 results) You searched for: Author: willa cather, Title: death comes for the archbishop. We get a beautiful depiction of a geographical area in a certain period in North American history. There is something epic-and almost mythic-about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, although the story it tells is that of a single human life. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. It is never clear where it is going or what the point of the author really is. This story of a Catholic priest and bishop in the territory of New Mexico is beautifully written, but the plot is thin.
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