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.