{"product_id":"death-comes-for-the-archbishop-willa-cather-9791043134074","title":"Death Comes for the Archbishop","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeath Comes for the Archbishop\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, \u003cstrong\u003eJean Marie\u003c\/strong\u003e Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, \u003cstrong\u003eFather Joseph\u003c\/strong\u003e Vaillant. They have been sent to reawaken and spread the \u003cstrong\u003eRoman Catholic\u003c\/strong\u003e faith in an area where it has grown weak: New Mexico, recently annexed by the United States. Desolate and remote, the territory is home to many diverse groups: Mexicans, including those on ranches established for hundreds of years; Indians, who have been there much longer and who are divided by language and customs into thirty nations; and newcomers-hunters, fur trappers, and those seeking gold. This book is as much their story as it is the story of the priests and the vast changes the land itself underwent in those years.\u003cstrong\u003eDeath Comes\u003c\/strong\u003e for the Archbishop was a departure for Willa Cather, who had already published eight novels before publishing this one in \u003cstrong\u003e1927\u003c\/strong\u003e. The novel doesn't try to follow a single unified story the way many historical novels do; instead, its nine chapters are episodic, filled with stories, legends, histories, and descriptions of the Southwest, which Cather had been visiting for many years before she started writing it.Many of its main characters, including the bishop and his vicar, are thinly disguised versions of real-life historical figures, while other famous \u003cstrong\u003eNew Mexicans\u003c\/strong\u003e of the day, including the frontiersman \u003cstrong\u003eKit Carson\u003c\/strong\u003e and the \"powerful old priest,\" \u003cstrong\u003eAntonio José Martínez\u003c\/strong\u003e, appear under their actual names.Set in the 1850s, this short novel is about the struggles and triumphs of a bishop, \u003cstrong\u003eJean Marie\u003c\/strong\u003e Latour, and his loyal friend and vicar, \u003cstrong\u003eFather Joseph\u003c\/strong\u003e Vaillant. They have been sent to reawaken and spread the \u003cstrong\u003eRoman Catholic\u003c\/strong\u003e faith in an area where it has grown weak: New Mexico, recently annexed by the United States. Desolate and remote, the territory is home to many diverse groups: Mexicans, including those on ranches established for hundreds of years; Indians, who have been there much longer and who are divided by language and customs into thirty nations; and newcomers-hunters, fur trappers, and those seeking gold. This book is as much their story as it is the story of the priests and the vast changes the land itself underwent in those years.\u003cstrong\u003eDeath Comes\u003c\/strong\u003e for the Archbishop was a departure for Willa Cather, who had already published eight novels before publishing this one in \u003cstrong\u003e1927\u003c\/strong\u003e. 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