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01-01-2002
Stone Angel, The

Author: NEIL BESNER

The Stone Angel , by MargaretLAURENCE (Toronto, London and New York, 1964), is the first of Laurence's"Manawaka" novels. Hagar Shipley relives her life by narrating memories as she battles to come to terms with herself before she dies. Hagar at 90 is a proud, powerful, tyrannical woman suffering the indignities of old age. The Stone Angel is shaped by the alternating rhythms of Hagar's voice, searching through her past and returning to her present condition; her widely ranging tones reveal the labyrinths of her pride. ...

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