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The Diviners (Paperback)

by Margaret Laurence (Author), Timothy Findley (Author)
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Perhaps the best known and most loved of all Margaret Laurence's novels, The Diviners was also her last novel and the final entry in her Manawaka sequence. Laurence, who saw The Diviners as her own fictional autobiography, tells the story of 48-year-old Morag Gunn as she struggles to finish another novel. As she works, she reminisces about her life. It's her story but it's also the story of the men and women who have fostered her, for good and bad: her parents, who died when she was five; her eccentric stepfather and his reclusive wife; her overbearing and repressive husband, who tried to smother her dreams to write; and the sensuous but unreliable Native lover who inspires her, with whom she bears a daughter and with whom she is never happy.

The Diviners is Laurence at her most inventive. She incorporates flashbacks, personal reminiscences, imaginary conversations, and philosophical meditations, shifting between narrative and digression to give readers a sense of Morag's thought processes. The novel also incorporates the themes that mattered most to Laurence: racial and gender equality, the validity of the Canadian literary experience, and the importance of artistic expression in society. The Diviners, which brought Laurence her second Governor General's Award in 1974, is a rich and striking novel, a fitting finale for Laurence's portrait of Manawaka. --Jeffrey Canton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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“A pleasure to read!…Richly textured, beautifully written.”
–The New Yorker

“Leaves us breathless and cheering.”
–Montreal Gazette


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5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating, Dec 26 2009
By S. El-Hilo "Adores Books" (Burnaby, BC CA) - See all my reviews
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An amazing read. The characters are so well developed that you feel the change in the characters as time progresses, and as they grow older. Morag will stay with me for a long time. Very compelling, and moving. Its real, its human.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a Canadian classic, Jun 5 2004
By I ain't no porn writer (author, "Crippled Dreams") - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Diviners (Paperback)
There are some spicy sex scenes, but it's hard to believe that this novel was called pornography when it was first published in 1974. Margaret Laurence got all kinds of praise and hate mail because of it, as well as disapproval from members of her congregation and people who knew her back home for writing "such stuff".

This story is a young prairie girl's search for real love, and in Morag Gunn we have the perfectly well-drawn believable figure of the independent young woman who defeats the odds and achieves the life she wants thanks to her strength of courage and perseverance. (...)

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5.0 out of 5 stars All Canadian Women Should Read This Book, May 18 2003
By Melanie (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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I've read this book twice and I enjoyed it even more the second time. The characters are complex and interesting and their lives take unexpected twists and turns, making the story very realistic and very fascinating. The development of the storyline is such that you feel as if you are on the same journey as the characters, as the reader can't help to be emotionally connected to the little town and the main characters.

Laurence is a brilliant writer and this is her best work -- which is a big compliment since her other novels are incredible too.

I highly recommend this book, and especially to other Canadian women who will love Morag Gunn and relate to her life as a woman in Canada.

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5.0 out of 5 stars All Canadian Women Should Read This Book
I've read this book twice and I enjoyed it even more the second time. The characters are complex and interesting and their lives take unexpected twists and turns, making the... Read more
Published on April 2 2003 by Melanie

5.0 out of 5 stars Canadian Literature at its best
The Diviners is one book that I could not put down! The present and past are intermingled in a heart rending story of love, fear, confusion and the struggle to find ones... Read more
Published on Dec 3 2002 by Aoife Ruane

4.0 out of 5 stars Literary Analysis: The Diviners
Margaret Laurence's novel, The Diviners, achieves a stark sense of reality through the use of tone and diction. Read more
Published on May 6 2001 by Lisa Poling

4.0 out of 5 stars Literary Analysis: The Diviners
Margaret Laurence's novel, The Diviners, achieves a stark sense of reality through the use of tone and diction. Read more
Published on May 6 2001 by Lisa Poling

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book just like its author
Well, this is a great book and you gotta read it to know why. I had to read it in the last year of high school, this year. It started off like a pretty boring book. Read more
Published on Oct 31 2000 by Mo

5.0 out of 5 stars Read the entire Manawaka cycle--it speaks to all women
The Manawaka cycle consists of the following books: "A Bird in the House", "A Jest of God", "The Fire Dwellers" "Stone Angel", and... Read more
Published on Sep 8 2000

5.0 out of 5 stars So good, I've now read it twice
This book remains, to me, as one of the top-five books ever written by a Canadian, and probably the most beautiful book written about the prairies. Read more
Published on Jun 11 2000 by J. Gifford

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good
I'm a high school student in Canada who choose to read this book with the suggestion of my English teacher. Read more
Published on April 30 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars The Diviners
Laurence was able to create characters of great depth, all diverse in their personality traits. Morag Gunn carries the story through reflection of her life, skipping back and... Read more
Published on April 9 2000

4.0 out of 5 stars Living with your mother
if you grew up with your mother and a distant father, then this book is an absolute must.
Published on Sep 10 1999

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