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The Stone Angel is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. First published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba.
- Margaret Laurence
- 1964
The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight.”—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review• ”The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . .
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Jun 15, 1993 · Margaret Laurence. University of Chicago Press, Jun 15, 1993 - Fiction - 308 pages. The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's...
- Margaret Laurence
- University of Chicago Press, 1993
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Introduction. Although Margaret Laurence had been publishing fiction for a decade before The Stone Angel was published in 1964, it was this novel that first won her a wide and appreciative audience.
Aug 27, 2024 · The Stone Angel, along with Scottish writer Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori (1959), is one of the few novels to focus on the disintegration of the body, the role of memory in aging, the...
