Shadows on the Rock - Paperback

Name: Shadows on the Rock - Paperback
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SKU: 9780679764045
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by Willa Cather

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Book Overview

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馗ile 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馗he. 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.

ISBN	9780679764045
Author	Willa Cather
Publisher	Vintage
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	September 1995
Language	ENG- English
Pages	240
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults
Print Size	Standard Print

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