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The Diviners: A Novel
de LAURENCE, Margaret
- Usado
- Bien
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Bien/Very good
- Librería
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London, Ontario, Canada
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Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very good. 380 p. 25 cm. Grey cloth hardcover in mylar-covered dustjacket. Front flap price clipped. Some spots to jacket. Faint stains to lower edge not affecting pages. Lower rear corner bumped. The slightest of wear to top edge of rear board. Covers a little bit warped so that rear board appears a bit higher than front.
"The Diviners" is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle. It is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love and finally achieves the life she determined would be hers. The book has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career and won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for 1974.
"The Diviners" is the culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle. It is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love and finally achieves the life she determined would be hers. The book has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career and won the Governor General's Award for Fiction for 1974.
Sinopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario in 1987.
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- Librería
- Attic Books
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 135046
- Título
- The Diviners: A Novel
- Autor
- LAURENCE, Margaret
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Bien
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition
- Editorial
- McClelland and Stewart
- Lugar de publicación
- Toronto
- Fecha de publicación
- 1974
- Palabras clave
- Canadian Literature
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Literature;
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