Shadows On The Rock

At the end of the seventeenth century, on that "grey rock in the Canadian wilderness" known as Quebec, a French family, the Auclairs, begin a life very different from the one they knew in Paris. On her mother's death ten-year-old Cecile is entrusted with the care of the household and of her father, Euclid, the town's apothecary. Two years later, in 1697, as the red-gold autumn sunlight pours over the rock "like a heavy southern wine", Cecile and her father prepare for the long, difficult winter ahead with no word from home - news of the world they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual boats from France are able to make their way up the St Lawrence. For her father, it will be a painful exile, but for the young Cecile life holds innumerable joys as old ties are relinquished and new ones are formed ...

Product details

• Authors: Willa Cather
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.04.2007
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature
• EAN: 9781844084210
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-421-0
• Pages: 288
• Dimensions (packing): 19.9 x 13.3 x 1.9 cm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics > 1830; VMC; Virago modern classics
• Subjects: FICTION / General, FICTION / Coming of Age, Sagas, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Nature, FICTION / Literary, Love, Quebec, Virginia, Class, Family life fiction, Little Brown, Generational sagas, Fiction: general and literary, Classic Books, female protagonist, American Literature, award winning author, Romance fiction, american author, female writer, female author, Classic Stories, prize winning author, female character, American writer, Little Brown Book Group, Hachette, vmc, virago novels, virago stories, virago fiction, virago books, nature fiction, frontier life fiction, frontier life novel