The Stone Angel: Penguin Modern Classics Edition (New Canadian Library)

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UPC:
9780735252844
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/16/2017
Release Date:
5/16/2017
Author:
Laurence, Margaret
Language:
English: Published; English: Original Language; English
Pages:
352
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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. Margaret Laurence's most celebrated novel introduced readers to one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Hagar Shipley is stubborn, querulous, self-reliant, and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her, she 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.