The Stone Angel by Laurence, Margaret
by Laurence, Margaret | PB | Acceptable
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780770421403
- Publication Year
- 1984
- Format
- Mass Market
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Stone Angel
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada
- Genre
- Non-Classifiable, Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Weight
- 5.4 Oz
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
ISBN-10
0770421407
ISBN-13
9780770421403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125159332
Product Key Features
Book Title
Stone Angel
Publication Year
1984
Topic
General
Language
English
Genre
Non-Classifiable, Fiction
Format
Mass Market
Dimensions
Item Weight
5.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"One of the most convincing and the most touching portraits of an unregenerate sinner." Time From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Synopsis
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. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. 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. 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. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. "This is a revelation, not impersonation. 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 "It is [Laurence's] 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 "Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."--Atlantic "[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing--and the most touching--portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."--Time "Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."--Granville Hicks, Saturday Review "The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."--Paul Pickrel, Harper's
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