The Diviners
1st Edition
Published on 4. April 2019
528 pages
978-1-78854-874-8 (ISBN)
Description
Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is suffering from a profound loneliness that she is struggling to understand, causing Morag to contemplate her own past.
Through a series of flashbacks she reviews the painful and exhilarating moments from her earlier life: her childhood on the social margins of the small prairie town of Manawaka; her escape from a demeaning marriage into writing fiction; and her travels to England, Scotland and finally back to Canada, where she faces her most difficult challenge - the necessity to understand, and let go of, the daughter she loves.
First published in 1974, The Diviners is an evocative, moving exploration of one woman's search for identity.
Through a series of flashbacks she reviews the painful and exhilarating moments from her earlier life: her childhood on the social margins of the small prairie town of Manawaka; her escape from a demeaning marriage into writing fiction; and her travels to England, Scotland and finally back to Canada, where she faces her most difficult challenge - the necessity to understand, and let go of, the daughter she loves.
First published in 1974, The Diviners is an evocative, moving exploration of one woman's search for identity.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78854-874-8 (9781788548748)
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Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) grew up in the small prairie town of Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada. Recognised as one of the greatest Canadian writers, her masterwork is the Manawaka sequence of five novels: five novels of which The Diviners is the final in the series. The first, The Stone Angel, A Jest of God and The Fire-Dwellers are all available from Apollo.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- I River of Now and Then
- II The Nuisance Grounds
- III Halls of Sion
- IV Rites of Passage
- V The Diviners
- Afterword
- About the author
- More from Apollo
- About the cover and endpapers
- About the Apollo Lost Library
