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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

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Apr 14, 2010 Book Concierge rated it it was ok

Shelves: book-club, library, western, concierge, christianity, new-mexico

Okay … Intellectually I can appreciate Cather’s writing. The last chapter, in particular, is very fine. I love the way she is able to convey a sense of time and place … and she speaks of a landscape that is dear to me.

Now, I know this book was written in 1927, and I know that the setting is in the New Mexico territory from about mid 1850s to 1888, but I just cannot stomach the superior European attitude of this book and its main characters.

The educated are all French Jesuits, Spaniards or the ...more

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Jan 25, 2016 Mark rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, historical, spirituality, american, west, mexico, catholic, missionaries, new

Beautiful word pictures of a unique haunting land combine with wonderful characters to entrance and entrap the reader in territories surrounding Sante Fe.

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