Shadows on the Rock
Autor Willa Catheren Limba Engleză Hardback – 31 ian 1976
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780848804558
ISBN-10: 0848804554
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: AMEREON LTD
Colecția Amereon Ltd
ISBN-10: 0848804554
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: AMEREON LTD
Colecția Amereon Ltd
Notă biografică
Willa Cather (1873-1947) was one of America's most distinguished novelists, celebrated for her evocative portrayals of landscape, memory, and the lives of people shaping new communities. Born in Virginia and raised in Nebraska, she drew upon her experiences on the Great Plains to create such enduring novels as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for One of Ours. Her later works, including Death Comes for the Archbishop, The Professor's House, and Shadows on the Rock, expanded her exploration of history, cultural identity, and the relationship between individuals and the places they call home.
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'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER
'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' HELEN DUNMORE
'Her prose has a supple, lit-up sensuality that constantly makes the reader stop and read again as in a fine piece of poetry' MARINA WARNER
At the end of the seventeenth century in Quebec, a French family, the Auclairs, begin a life very different from the one they knew in Paris. On her mother's death, ten-year-old Cecile is entrusted with the care of the household and of her father, Euclid, the town's apothecary.
Two years later, in 1697, Cecile and her father prepare for the long, difficult winter ahead with no word from home. The news of the world they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual boats from France are able to make their way up the St Lawrence. For her father, it will be a painful exile, but for the young Cecile life holds innumerable joys as old ties are relinquished and new ones are formed . . .
'She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers' OBSERVER
'Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic' HELEN DUNMORE
'Her prose has a supple, lit-up sensuality that constantly makes the reader stop and read again as in a fine piece of poetry' MARINA WARNER
At the end of the seventeenth century in Quebec, a French family, the Auclairs, begin a life very different from the one they knew in Paris. On her mother's death, ten-year-old Cecile is entrusted with the care of the household and of her father, Euclid, the town's apothecary.
Two years later, in 1697, Cecile and her father prepare for the long, difficult winter ahead with no word from home. The news of the world they have left behind must wait until spring, when the annual boats from France are able to make their way up the St Lawrence. For her father, it will be a painful exile, but for the young Cecile life holds innumerable joys as old ties are relinquished and new ones are formed . . .
Recenzii
Her prose has a supple, lit-up sensuality that constantly makes the reader stop and read again as in a fine piece of poetry
Shadows on the Rock is not a plot-driven novel: it can be best described as an encyclopedia of characters such as is seldom found in literature
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic
Shadows on the Rock is not a plot-driven novel: it can be best described as an encyclopedia of characters such as is seldom found in literature
She is undoubtedly one of the greatest American writers
Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic