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Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

Start date: March 1, 2023

Finish date: March 31, 2023

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

Why we're reading this: March 2023 New School Classic Group Read
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Apr 18, 2011 Katy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: all-time_100_novels

This book is set in the time period right after Polk's administration. I just finished a biography of Polk it set me up nicely for the history behind this book.
Willa Cather writes of a slower time in history and she uses beautiful prose to describe the people and places in this story.
This book shows a true devotion to God and service to others. ...more

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Dec 13, 2017 Melissa rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, 2010s, time-top-100

My Antonia has always been one of my favorite books, and after reading Archbishop, I am kicking myself for not reading sooner. I love New Mexico and Cather’s descriptions of the state in 1850 is out of this world. Not a huge plot, but it’s not needed...

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