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In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and depth, Morag recognizes that she needs solitude and work as much as she needs the love of her family. With an afterword by Margaret Atwood. "Mrs. Laurence's [novel] is both poetic and muscular, and her heroine is certainly one of the more humane, unglorified, unpolemical, believable women to have appeared in recent fiction."--The New Yorker Synopsis
A middle-aged writer struggles to understand people and events that have shaped her life. With unusual wit and depth, she recognizes that her daughter needs solitude and work as much as she need the love of her family. "Laurence's . . . heroine is certainly one of the more . . . believable women to have appeared in recent fiction."--The New Yorker.
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Living with your mother
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Reviewer:
A reader
from England
September 10, 1999
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if you grew up with your mother and a distant father, then this book is an absolute must.
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FUN AND SENSIBLE
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Reviewer:
A reader
from Canada
June 15, 1999
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I can't expect I can find such a humorous novel in Canadian culture. The idioms and slangs that Laurence has picked are BRAVOS! Don't be afraid of the thickness of the book. Once you have read a several pages, you will deeply immerse into Morag's life.
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Margaret Laurence is the mother of Canadian Litature!
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blacksheep0@home.com
from Ontario
March 28, 1999
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My last year of highschool we had to read The Stone Angel, and it was the only book assigned to me in highschool that I managed to finish ahead of sechduel. I have since been out of school for two years and when I found The Diviners I jumped at the chance to read it. And I loved it and everything about it, unlike the other reveiwers I was neither forced to read it nor was I looking for a book about a middle aged women to relate to. I read this book simply because Laurence is a great storyteller. She manages to wave the past and present flawlessly never losing the reader anywhere in between. I fond that the realisionship between Morag and Pique was much like the realisionship between Deliah and Cissy in Dorthy Alison's Cavedweller. So if you like The Cavedweller then you like this book. The same can be said for if you like Laurence's books you will Alison's books because she is the next step for Women's litature in North America!
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To think I almost missed this one
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Reviewer:
A reader
from Atlanta
February 19, 1999
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I had to read this book for an English class and I've read it several times since of my own accord. Full of brilliant symbolism, this book employs some fascinating literary techniques. Laurence's use of Morag's "memorybank movies" is so realistic that you really feel as you read that you are growing up with her. Her discovery of herself and acceptance of her flawed loved ones, such as her adoptive parents and her off-and-on lover Jules, is one of the best aspects of the book. Her realization that not only can she deal with but she is also proud of where she comes from is something I love to read about each time. It's a great book to study carefully, after you've read it once. If you just skim the surface, you miss so much. Great regional flavor.
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