Shadows on the Rock by Cather, Willa

Shadows on the Rock

Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the...
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Shadows on the Rock by Cather, Willa

Shadows on the Rock

$16.00

Shadows on the Rock

$16.00
Author: Willa Cather
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Willa Cather
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 09/26/1995
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.12w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780679764045
Audience: Young Adult

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.8
Point Value: 11
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 44560 / Shadows on the Rock


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2000 pg. 1442
Entertainment Weekly 02/15/2002 pg. 62

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.

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