Margaret Laurence

The Diviners

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78854-874-8
EAN: 9781788548748
Produktnummer: 30166062
Verlag: Head of Zeus
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 528 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'004 KB

Über den Autor

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.