Shadow on the rock

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.

subjects: Fiction,  History,  Physicians,  Fathers and daughters,  Pharmacists,  Littérature américaine,  Histoire,  Romans, nouvelles,  To 1763 (New France),  American fiction (fictional works by one author),  France, fiction,  Large type books

People: Louis de Buade Frontenac comte de (1620-1698)

Places: Canada,  Québec (Québec)

Times: To 1763 (New France),  1713-1763 (Nouvelle-France),  20e siècle