The Diviners
Book - 2007
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process -- putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right -- relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world -- and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor General's Award for Fiction for 1974.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process -- putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right -- relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world -- and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor General's Award for Fiction for 1974.
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Publisher:
Toronto :, McClelland and Stewart,, 2007.
Edition:
New Canadian library ed.
ISBN:
9780771034909
Characteristics:
543 pages :,music ;,20 cm.
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Add a CommentNot a very good book. Disliked almost each and every character. One or two scenes were well written but the rest was not enjoyable.
boring
I didn't want this book to end!
Excellent story, but one of Canada's most remarkable authors. HIGHLY recommend.
Laurence has a talent for making the reader feel the character's emotions.I'm not a single mom, so I can't relate to that part of the story, but I enjoyed the character's respect for the past.
I recently revisited this memorable book since I had read it as part of a university English course many years ago. With age, comes wisdom and a better grasp on Morag Gunn.