The Diviners
In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs solitude and work as much as she needs the love of her family....
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In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs solitude and work as much as she needs the love of her family. With an afterword by Margaret Atwood."Mrs. Laurence's [novel] is both poetic and muscular, and her heroine is certainly one of the more humane, unglorified, unpolemical, believable women to have appeared in recent fiction."—The New Yorker
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780226469355 (0226469352)
Publish date: June 15th 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Pages no: 390
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Modern,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Series: Manawaka Sequence
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...
Originally reviewed here.Why I Read It: Required reading for my Religious Themes in Literature class. Margaret Laurence is considered a classic Canadian author, but I unfortunately had an unpleasant experience with her work prior to having to read The Diviners. Back in grade 12 I had to read Laurenc...
I read this when I was about 16, and Christy's "by their garbage shall ye know them" speech was life changing. Love this book. I've read it multiple times, but haven't re-read it in about 15 years. I should again.
Definitely something every woman should eventually read at some point in their life. A tale of class, love and growing up with a desire to be your own person. Very good book =).
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