Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)
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Shadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)

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 C©cile 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 cr©che. 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.

  • TitleShadows on the Rock (Vintage Classics)
  • BrandVintage
  • ManufacturerVintage
  • BindingPaperback
  • ProductGroupBook
  • ItemPartNumberFBA-|300255
  • ColorCream
  • ReleaseDate1995-09-26T00:00:01Z
  • UnitCount1
  • EANs9780679764045