{"product_id":"shadows-on-the-rock","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51704972869943,"sku":"9780679764045","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/9926\/1239\/files\/imageloader_0b481537-b330-4dce-940d-5b128e2e32c0.jpg?v=1771604258","url":"https:\/\/shop.queerbooks.com\/products\/shadows-on-the-rock","provider":"Philly AIDS Thrift @ Giovanni's Room","version":"1.0","type":"link"}