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"Superbly written, with this sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that is definitely Miss Cather's." (The New York Times) Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock soon after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of 17th-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of UNITED STATES origins and of the women and men who struggled to adapt to that " new world " even while they clung to the artifacts and manners of one they left out. In 1697 Quebec can be an island of French civilization perched on the 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 with out a word from your home. But to 12-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie next to the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of per annum, she re-creates the continent as it will need to have seemed 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.

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