![]() ![]() "Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."- Atlantic "It is admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."-Honor Tracy, The New Republic The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."-Robertson Davies, New York Times "This is a revelation, not impersonation. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. ![]() The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. ![]()
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