{"product_id":"9780679764045","title":"Shadows on the Rock","description":"\u003cb\u003eWilla 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003ci\u003e is\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Willa Cather","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":45894802768084,"sku":"9780679764045","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_13de7f64-6a37-42aa-b646-84d003c5e97d.jpg?v=1732388874","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780679764045","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}