The stone angel

Auteur(s) du document : Margaret Laurence

Author: Margaret Laurence

Editor : Toronto, Ont. : McClelland and Stewart, 1988, c1964.

Description : 316 p.

Number of copies: 20

Summery

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.