Shadows on the Rock - (Vintage Classics) by Willa Cather (Paperback)
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Highlights
- 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.
- About the Author: WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!
- 240 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Humorous
- Series Name: Vintage Classics
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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.About the Author
WILLA CATHER, author of twelve novels, including O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and Death Comes for the Archbishop, was born in Virginia in 1873 but grew up in Nebraska, where many of her novels are set. She died in 1947 in New York City.Dimensions (Overall): 8.12 Inches (H) x 5.12 Inches (W) x .65 Inches (D)
Weight: .56 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 240
Series Title: Vintage Classics
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Humorous
Publisher: Vintage
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Willa Cather
Language: English
Street Date: September 26, 1995
TCIN: 92111152
UPC: 9780679764045
Item Number (DPCI): 247-01-6199
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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