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"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's." --The New York Times Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to that 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.… (plus d'informations)
This is a very detail description of what life may have been like living in Quebec City during the latter part of the 17th Century. The arrival of the supply ships from France every spring is an important event for the inhabitants of the colony bringing in a fresh supply of trade goods and loading the furs and other items created in the colony.
The narrative follows the daily activities of thirteen year old Cecile Auclair and her father, the local apothecary who is known for his progressive medical knowledge. An example of this is his hostility to using bleeding as a cure for disease and infection. The Catholic religion is extremely important to the characters and the colony and plays an important role in the lives and decisions of the characters both fictional and historic.
A typical Cather read with incredible detailed descriptions of nature, characters and the early 16th Century Quebec City. ( )
I stopped and started alot on this one and I think it is because I never really knew what was happening. It had some narrative but mostly felt like "A Year in Colonial Quebec". That was interesting, though my total lack of knowledge of the history meant I mostly recognized famous names and tried to recall a few bits of my one trip there. It was very evocative, the place felt real but nothing really hung together as a plot line. I kept waiting for it to make some change somewhere but it just didn't. The ships left for France, the city survives the winter, things about the two bishops they seems to have, a trip on the river, a religous recluse, Count Frontenanc. Just not sure why.
Historical fiction set in Quebec is bound to pique my interest. This book is told from a settler’s perspective, following Euclide Auclair, an apothecary, and his daughter Cécile as they go about their lives in Quebec City. I don’t recall seeing a single Indigenous person get screen time; Indigenous people are talked about mostly as people to be converted to Christianity. That said, it was probably better to leave people off-screen if the alternative would have been a potentially terrible stereotype. I totally called how Cécile’s story arc was going to end up and thought setting the epilogue 15 years after the main story was an interesting touch.
This is a book for people who like character-driven novels, and it’s shorter than many historical novels published these days, so it has that going for it as well.
I read this book as a public-domain ebook from Faded Page (fadedpage.com). ( )
Cather brings late 17th century Quebec alive in this richly imagined story of a young girl coming of age in Canada. It's one of my Cather favorites. ( )
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One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.
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"Vous me demandez des graines de fleurs de ce pays. Nous en faisons venir de France pour notre jardin, n'y ayant pas ici de fort rares ni de fort belles. Tout y est sauvage, les fleurs aussi que les hommes". - Marie de l'Incarnation (lettre a une de ses soeurs). Quebec, le 12 aout, 1653.
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While he was closing his shop and changing his coat to go up to his daughter's house, he thought over much that his visitor had told him, and he believed that he was indeed fortunate to spend his old age here where nothing changed; to watch his grandsons grow up in a country where the death of the King, the probable evils of a long regency, would never touch them.
"Superbly written, with that sensitivity to sunset and afterglow that has always been Miss Cather's." --The New York Times Willa Cather wrote Shadows on the Rock immediately after her historical masterpiece, Death Comes for the Archbishop. Like its predecessor, this novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt to that 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.
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The narrative follows the daily activities of thirteen year old Cecile Auclair and her father, the local apothecary who is known for his progressive medical knowledge. An example of this is his hostility to using bleeding as a cure for disease and infection. The Catholic religion is extremely important to the characters and the colony and plays an important role in the lives and decisions of the characters both fictional and historic.
A typical Cather read with incredible detailed descriptions of nature, characters and the early 16th Century Quebec City. (