Author: Margaret Laurence
Year: 1964
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Culture: Canada
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9780771099892
9780226469362
0771099894
0226469360 |
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In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant - and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her - Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.
As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town; as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy; as a mother who dominates her younger son; and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors.
Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart.
From the Hardcover edition.
This book is part of the "Manawaka Sequence" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Diviners"
First published in 1974
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 | "A Bird in the House"
First published in 1974
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 | "The Fire Dwellers"
First published in 1969
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 | "A Jest of God"
First published in 1966
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