Shadows on the Rock
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-679-76404-5
- EAN: 9780679764045
- Produktnummer: 19344481
- Verlag: Vintage Books N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.0 cm 250 g
- Gewicht: 250
- Sonstiges: Ab 19 - 19 J.
Über den Autor
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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