Author

Publication

1931 - Knopf, No place, unknown, or undetermined

Language

English

Word Count

70,000 words, Guess

Page Count

280 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPS3505.A87 S5
  • DDC813/.52

Description

Set in 18th century Quebec City, this is ostensibly the narration of a year in the life of a widowed apothecary and his young daughter. A gentle tale, full of the small joys and daily struggles of a colonist's life in a harsh and unforgiving New World. Cather explores the links between the protagonists' past lives and their current existence through a series of different portraits - the apothecary and the little girl, a <i>coureur du bois</i>, a Jesuit missionary living in daily privation and danger, two contending Bishops, and even the Governor himself.

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  • Shadows on the rockKnopf1931-01-01
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