Book
Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
- Published
- 1927
- Genre
- Historical Fiction
- Publisher
- Wildside Press, LLC
- Pages
- 297
- Words
- 66721
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/545951.Death_Comes_for_the_Archbishop?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 7.9
- AR interest level
- UG — upper grades, 9–12
- Lexile
- 1150L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 14–17
- Ambleside year
- Year 10 onwards · ages 15–18
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
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, lived simply in the silence of the desert. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes 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, although he must contend with an unforgiving landscape, derelict and sometimes openly rebellious priests, and his own loneliness. One of these events Cather gives us an indelible vision of life unfolding in a place where time itself seems suspended.
Collections
Time Magazine 1923-2005
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781479477548
- ISBN-10
- 1479477540
Tags
History-Misc./OtherReligion-ChristianityTime Magazine Best BooksUnited States-New Mexico