6/11/2023 0 Comments The diviners hardcover![]() The Diviners departs significantly from the conventional, character-based realism of Margaret Laurence's preceding Manawaka novels and short story collection ( The Stone Angel, 1964 A Jest of God, 1966 A Bird in the House, 1970 The Fire Dwellers, 1988) in presenting a grand, sprawling, postmodern, self-reflexive portrait of Canadian life across several generations, races and classes. The novel, in the breadth of its vision and depth of its socio-cultural engagements, is widely considered to be Laurence's masterpiece, and one of the greatest Canadian novels ever written. ![]() The Diviners (1974), the fifth and final book-length fiction in Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka series, is the story of Morag Gunn, a Manitoba prairie-born novelist and single mother, whose life and works loosely resemble Margaret Laurence's own. ![]()
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