Death Comes for the Archbishop

Death Comes for the ArchbishopFrom one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of the twentieth century: a truly remarkable book" (The New York Times),an epic story of a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. With a new introduction by Claire Messud. In 1851 Father Jean Marie Latour comes to serve as the Apostolic Vicar to New Mexico. What he finds is a vast territory of red hills and tortuous arroyos, American by law but Mexican and Indian in custom and