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Shadows on the Rock

By Willa Cather

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Shadows on the Rock

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Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to a new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left behind. In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends-and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
242
Release Date:
1995-09-26
Publication Date:
1995-09-26
Publisher:
Random House
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0679764046
ISBN13:
9780679764045
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
250 g
Height:
131 cm
Width:
202 cm
Thickness:
17 cm

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