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Shadows on the Rock is a film about survival, told through the eyes of three compelling women across time. In 1928, at the height of her illustrious career, Willa Cather is faced with the devastating loss of her father and eviction from her cherished home in Greenwich Village.
Shadows on the Rock is a novel by the American writer Willa Cather, published in 1931. The novel covers one year of the lives of Cecile Auclair and her father Euclide, French colonists in Quebec. Like many of Cather's books, the story is driven by detailed portraits of the characters, rather than a narrative plot.
The classic Prairie trilogy in the 1910's evolving into bitter social criticisms in the early 1920's, turning to a place far away in time in the mystical Death Comes for the Archbishop. With Shadows on the Rock she goes even farther away.
The novel is a detailed study of the lives of French colonists in the late 1600s on the “rock” that is Quebec city, Quebec, Canada. Like many of Cather’s novels, Shadows on the Rock evokes the pioneer spirit and emphasizes the importance of religious tradition.
Shadows on the Rock (1931) follows apothecary Euclide Auclair and his daughter Cecile living together in 1697 Quebec. Cecile is a precocious and unique girl who feels at home in the foreign port town as she navigates growing up with the eccentric people who travel through it.
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Willa 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.
