Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics)

Cather, Willa

ISBN 10: 0679728899 ISBN 13: 9780679728894

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

RO60066845. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP. 1990. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 297 pages. Annotations en page de garde.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

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Críticas:

"A truly remarkable book . . . Soaked through and through with atmosphere . . . From the riches of her imagination and sympathy Miss Cather has distilled a very rare piece of literature. It stands out, from the very resistance it opposes to classification." --The New York Times

"The most sensuous of writers, Willa Cather builds her imagined world as solidly as our five senses build the uiverse around us." --Rebecca West

"[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." --A. S. Byatt

Reseña del editor:

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. 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.

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• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0679728899
• ISBN 13: 9780679728894
• Einband: Rústica
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304