- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: McClelland & Stewart; 1st Trade edition (Mar 26 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0771047479
- ISBN-13: 978-0771047473
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #158,800 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In collaboration with her daughter, Jocelyn, Margaret Laurence was able to complete this stirring memoir of her literary life before her death in 1987. Published posthumously in 1989, it traces her development as a writer through the influences of three women: her own mother, who died when Laurence was only four; her aunt, who raised her and who later married her father; and her mother-in-law, who provided invaluable support after the breakup of Laurence's marriage. As well as these memorable portraits, it contains pleas for greater environmental responsibility and passionate diatribes against war, the nuclear arms race, and racism.
Readers looking for deeper insight into the hows and whys of Laurence's literary life, particularly answers to why Laurence stopped writing fiction after The Diviners, will be disappointed. Dance on the Earth does, however, capture Laurence's voice, in a memoir that is at once chatty, intimate, philosophical, angry, emotional, and often funny. It is a book that gave Margaret Laurence a chance to sum up her career as a woman, a mother, and an artist, to remember and pay tribute and celebrate the time that she had to dance on the earth. --Jeffrey Canton
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“A memoir in the true sense of the term. The secrets Laurence shares…are the most important ones: the secret of who she was, the secret of how she survived.”
–Kingston Whig-Standard
“An impressive last testament and fitting memorial to a remarkable woman.”
–Globe and Mail
“As a powerful celebration of life, Dance on the Earth is cause for jubilation.”
–Calgary Herald
–Kingston Whig-Standard
“An impressive last testament and fitting memorial to a remarkable woman.”
–Globe and Mail
“As a powerful celebration of life, Dance on the Earth is cause for jubilation.”
–Calgary Herald
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Magnificent and Profound,
By Ana Tirolese (London, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dance on the Earth: A Memoir (Paperback)
This is Margaret Lawrence's last book before her death in 1987. It was written with the help of her daughter, Jocelyn and published posthumously. Dance on the Earth is moving memoir of the journey through Margaret Lawrence's life told in her own magnificent words. Throughout this book you gain insight into the artist's demons and muses.
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Magnificent and Profound,
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This review is from: Dance on the Earth: A Memoir (Paperback)
This is Margaret Lawrence's last book before her death in 1987. It was written with the help of her daughter, Jocelyn and published posthumously. Dance on the Earth is moving memoir of the journey through Margaret Lawrence's life told in her own magnificent words. Throughout this book you gain insight into the artist's demons and muses.
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