Title: Shadows on the rock
First published: 1931
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
Places: Canada, Québec (Québec)
People: Louis de Buade Frontenac comte de (1620-1698)
Time periods: To 1763 (New France), 1713-1763 (Nouvelle-France), 20e siècle