Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the Archbishop is Willa Cather's best known novel. This epic is a dream like, mythic story of a life lived simply in the southwestern desert. Father Jean Marie Latour is transferred to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. He finds a vast territory of hills, arroyos, and loneliness. Cather delivers a story of a simple life lived well and full in this her tour de force.