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Willa Cather

Death comes for the archbishop

Hardcover (Book of the Month Club March 15, 1995)
A French bishop who works in the New World, solicits three cardinals at Rome to pick his candidate for the newly created diocese of New Mexico. One of the cardinals, a Spaniard named Allende, alludes to a painting by El Greco taken from his family by a missionary to the New World and lost, and asks for the new Bishop to search for it. The novel ends with the demise of Archbishop Latour in Santa Fe.
Pages
303
Weight
15.2 oz.
Dimensions
8.1 x 5.5 in.

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