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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather (1995, Trade Paperback)

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Shadows on the Rock, Paperback by Cather, Willa, ISBN 0679764046, ISBN-13 9780679764045, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Set in seventeenth-century Canada, an evocation of North American origins highlights the men and women who struggled to adapt to the new world even as they clung to the one they had left behind

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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100679764046

ISBN-139780679764045

eBay Product ID (ePID)640926

Product Key Features

Book TitleShadows on the Rock

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1995

TopicClassics, Literary, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorWilla Cather

Book SeriesVintage Classics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN95-008915

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal813/.52

Edition DescriptionReissue

SynopsisWilla 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3505.A87S5 1995