{"product_id":"death-comes-for-the-archbishop-introduction-by-a-s-byatt-hardcover","title":"Death Comes for the Archbishop: Introduction by A. S. Byatt - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilla Cather\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eA. S. Byatt\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilla Cather's story of the missionary priest Father Jean Marie Latour and his work of faith in the wilderness of the Southwest is told with a spare but sensuous directness and profound artistry--w\u003cb\u003eith an Introduction by A. S. Byatt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Latour arrives in 1851 in the territory of New Mexico, newly acquired by the United States, what he finds is a vast desert region of red hills and tortured arroyos that is American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and belief. Over the next four decades, Latour works gently and tirelessly to spread his faith and to build a soaring cathedral out of the local golden rock--while contending with unforgiving terrain, derelict and sometimes rebellious priests, and his own loneliness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop shares a limitless, craggy beauty with the New Mexico landscape of desert, mountain, and canyon in which its central action takes place, and its evocations of that landscape and those who are drawn to it suggest why Cather is acknowledged without question as the most poetically exact chronicler of the American frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilla Cather was probably born in Virginia in 1873, although her parents did not register the date, and it is probably incorrectly given on her tombstone. Because she is so famous for her Nebraska novels, many people assume she was born there, but Willa Cather was about nine years old when her family moved to a small Nebraska frontier town called Red Cloud that was populated by immigrant Swedes, Bohemians, Germans, Poles, Czechs, and Russians. The oldest of seven children, she was educated at home, studied Latin with a neighbor, and read the English classics in the evening. By the time she went to the University of Nebraska in 1891-where she began by wearing boy's clothes and cut her hair close to her head-she had decided to be a writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter graduation she worked for a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper, then moved to Pittsburgh and finally to New York City. There she joined \u003ci\u003eMcClure's \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, a popular muckraking periodical that encouraged the writing of new young authors. After meeting the author Sarah Orne Jewett, she decided to quit journalism and devote herself full time to fiction. Her first novel\u003ci\u003e, Alexander's Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared in serial form in \u003ci\u003eMcClure' s\u003c\/i\u003e in 1912. But her place in American literature was established with her first Nebraska novel, \u003ci\u003eO Pioneers!, \u003c\/i\u003e published in 1913, which was followed by her most famous pioneer novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Antonia, \u003c\/i\u003e in 1918. In 1922 she won the Pulitzer Prize for one of her lesser-known books, \u003ci\u003eOne of Ours. Death Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), her masterpiece, and \u003ci\u003eShadows on the Rock\u003c\/i\u003e (1931) also celebrated the pioneer spirit, but in the Southwest and French Canada. Her other novels include \u003ci\u003eThe Song of the Lark\u003c\/i\u003e(1915), \u003ci\u003eThe Professor' s House\u003c\/i\u003e (1925), \u003ci\u003eMy Mortal Enemy\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), and \u003ci\u003eLucy Gayheart\u003c\/i\u003e (1935). Willa Cather died in 1947.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.98 x 8.26 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 1992\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Death Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.9\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47265995129081,"sku":"9780679413196","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/BscG4dy5J59780679413196.webp?v=1768847329","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/death-comes-for-the-archbishop-introduction-by-a-s-byatt-hardcover","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}