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3* The Enchanted Bluff
3* A Death in the Desert
3* Peter
4* Not Under Forty
4* Lucy Gayheart
4* Shadows on the Rock
TR My Mortal Enemy
TR One of Ours
TR O Pioneers! (Great Plains Trilogy, #1)
TR The Professor's House
TR Death Comes for the Archbishop
TR A Lost lady
TR Alexander's Bridge ...more
Cather is a masterfully subtle writer. As I read this, I found myself having a familiar reaction to it—and one that I’ve noticed in many others’ reviews of Cather’s works: I kept trying to figure out why I was having the reaction I was having to it. Why do I care about these characters, why does 17th-century Quebec feel like such a real place, why am I still interested in this book which has literally no plot whatsoever? I can’t say I figured out the answer to that simmering “why” question, but
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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather
This is a remarkable book. It is a character driven novel covering one year in the lives of Euclide Auclair, a widowed apothecary, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Cecile, who was just 4 years old when they left France. Auclair and his family came to Quebec at the behest of the Count de Frontenac who was sent to govern the province by king Louis XIV. Since the death of her mother, Cecile has assumed housekeeping and cooking.
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This is a remarkable book. It is a character driven novel covering one year in the lives of Euclide Auclair, a widowed apothecary, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Cecile, who was just 4 years old when they left France. Auclair and his family came to Quebec at the behest of the Count de Frontenac who was sent to govern the province by king Louis XIV. Since the death of her mother, Cecile has assumed housekeeping and cooking.
Do not look for a plot. Living in ...more
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I could almost rewrite, word for word, the review I gave for Death Comes for the Archbishop although much is different. I'm really becoming a fan of Willa Cather!
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