Margaret Laurence
Birth date: July 18, 1926
Died: January 05, 1987
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Poor Hagar. Poor angel monument for Hagar's mother. Both are laid open to scorn because of their flaws - their lack of vision (the monument has blank eyes), their age, their inflexible stoniness. I'm rather grateful I come late to this major novel. As a younger woman, I probably would not have unde...
4.5 stars, rounded down.
The question I have is: Would I have read and enjoyed The Stone Angel if it had not been considered a Canadian classic and if a RL friend of mine did not highly recommend it? Well, I have read it, and I can see why it is considered a classic. There is so much symbolism in this book, you can draw c...
THE DIVINERS, Margaret Laurence’s sequel to her Manawaka novels, is a raw Canadian journey into the feminist movement of the seventies. Morag Gunn is an independent, powerful character who refuses to be dictated to by the rigid, and often cruel expectations of her times. Told through the eyes of a m...
Wow, this was such an a great read!! The book was published 50 years ago, but the sentiments and frustrations of Hagar, the 90 year-old protaganist, are just as relevant today as they were in 1964! I can't believe it's taken me so long to read the book!