• Title: Death Comes for the Archbishop
• Author: Willa Cather
• Genre/Subject: American literature
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1927
• Start date: 12/28/2022
• Finish date: 1/2/2023

Review:

I held off on reading this for a long time. I’m nearly done the complete works now and decided not to put it off any longer. This is because:

1. I can’t stand Catholics or Christians and
2. I fucking hate priests more than I hate rats.

But I was wrong in putting this one off for so long. There is a reason that this is one of Cather’s most recognized and best loved novels.

This is a tale of the American frontier. Imagine Louis L’Amour meets Willa Cather, but without the gunfights and rustlers. It is also a tale that follows the relentless march of civilization into and past the dwindling frontier. And this novel is a thing of beauty. Cather at her finest, most mature height.