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In this intimate accounting of her life, she recalls her privileged life as the daughter of Manawaka's only merchant, the rebellious spirit that led her to a miserable life as a farm wife, and the devastating death of her favourite child. When her son threatens to put her into a home, she takes matters into her own hands and seeks refuge in an abandoned canning factory. Hagar might be an irascible, vicious, and even vulgar old woman, but her feisty resilience makes her one of the most remarkable and appealing characters in Canadian literature. Laurence's first Manawaka novel, with its unforgettable portrait of old age, brilliantly sets the scene for the next books in the series. --Jeffrey Canton --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This review is from: The Stone Angel (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a powerful story. I read it in my early 20s and it helped me to comprehend the complexity of human relationships.
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Pride is the issue,
By Diana Bakelaar (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stone Angel (Paperback)
I read the "Stone Angel for a literature assignment for my grade twelve english class. I tried to start some of her other novels, but I found it hard to get into them. I stayed with this book, because it had a nice title. I did'nt like the flask backs, but when I got to the end it made sense.
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Hogwash!,
By Gladys Laurence (no relation to Margie) (Butte, Montana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stone Angel (Paperback)
Though I'm not Canadian, I too feel great shame for those Canadians who dislike Margaret Laurence and have no apparent literary taste. However, I find this book to be absolutely stupendous and absorbing. I have read it 4 times, and it only seems to get better with each read. I am not just saying this.Never has there been a more realistic and likeable character than Mrs. Hagar Shipley, someone everyone should be more like. Her unabashed honesty is truly heartwarming. If this is not a feel-good story, then I simply don't know what is!! This is the feel-good book of the year.... This is no overstatement. Yes. It is sad that people die. But if people did so with as much dignity as Hagar, the world would be a better place. And, no, I am not just saying that, again. Why hasn't this fine novel---this vanguard story--been adapted into movie form? I see the unflappable Glenn Close playing Hagar--with courage and grace. She's divine. Those who did not like the book likely did not understand its messages. Uninformed readers are the worst.
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