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The Stone Angel

Penguin Modern Classics Edition

By Margaret Laurence

By Margaret Laurence

By Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Adele Wiseman

By Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Adele Wiseman

By Margaret Laurence
Read by Maggie Huculak

By Margaret Laurence
Read by Maggie Huculak

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Part of New Canadian Library

Part of New Canadian Library

Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction

Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

Paperback $14.95

May 16, 2017 | ISBN 9780735252844

Ebook $9.99

Oct 08, 2010 | ISBN 9781551993775

Audiobook Download $20.00

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    About The Stone Angel

    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.

    About The Stone Angel

    The film adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, starring acclaimed actresses Ellen Burstyn and Ellen Page, and introducing Christine Horne, opens in theatres May 9, 2008.

    This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Laurence’s most celebrated novel will introduce readers again 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.

    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.

    About The Stone Angel

    In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel, Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley 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.

    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.

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    About Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in… More about Margaret Laurence

    About Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in… More about Margaret Laurence

    About Margaret Laurence

    Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen.From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in… More about Margaret Laurence

    Product Details

    Category: Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    May 16, 2017 | 352 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780735252844

    Category: Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by New Canadian Library
    Oct 08, 2010 | 328 Pages | ISBN 9781551993775

    Category: Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $20.00
    Published by McClelland & Stewart
    Sep 05, 2023 | ISBN 9780771005336
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