Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is suffering from a profound loneliness that she is struggling to understand, causing Morag to contemplate her own past. Through a series of flashbacks she reviews the painful and exhilarating moments from her earlier life: her childhood on the social margins of the small prairie town of Manawaka; her escape from a demeaning marriage into writing fiction; and her travels to England, Scotland and finally ...
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Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is suffering from a profound loneliness that she is struggling to understand, causing Morag to contemplate her own past. Through a series of flashbacks she reviews the painful and exhilarating moments from her earlier life: her childhood on the social margins of the small prairie town of Manawaka; her escape from a demeaning marriage into writing fiction; and her travels to England, Scotland and finally back to Canada, where she faces her most difficult challenge - the necessity to understand, and let go of, the daughter she loves. First published in 1974, The Diviners is an evocative, moving exploration of one woman's search for identity.
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Very Good-in Very Good-dust jacket. 0771047487. DJ and boards show light shelf wear, 6 cm tear to DJ at back spine edge. Foxing and light soil top page edges, some yellowing of pages; A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped.; 9.5 X 6.4 X 1.5 inches; 382 pages; "Morag Gunn, now in her mid-forties, lives in a riverside farmhouse in Eastern Ontario. Through a series of flashbacks she reviews the painful and exhilarating moments of her earlier life: her childhood on the social margins of the small prairie town of Manawaka; her escape from a demeaning marriage into writing fiction; and her travels to England, Scotland and finally back to Canada where she faces a different challenge-the necessity to understand, and let go of, the daughter she loves. A feminist saga as inspirational as when it was first published in 1974, The Diviners is an evocative exploration of one woman's search for her identity."
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Very Good + in very good + jacket. Tight binding. Inscribed by author on title page, "Lenora Kane-With Best Wishes-Margaret Laurence, Lakefield-24 May 1980". Dust jacket has some edgewear, mainly at head/tail of spine. A half-inch tear at top of jacket's front panel. Found in the book are numerous newspaper clippings and other ephemera about the author and this book, including a short story by the author from "Weekend Magazine", May 11, 1974 entitled "Loneliness is Something that Doesn't Exist Here"; a newspaper article about Neepawa, Manitoba, where Laurence spent her childhood, and upon which she based the fictional town of "Manawaka", which is featured in some of her novels; a program from the "Margaret Laurence Tribute", held to launch the Trent University Margaret Laurence Writer-in-Residence Fellowship; and, programs for memorial services held after the author's passing by the Lakefield Public Library, Lakefield United Church and Trent University. Clippings and other ephemera will be included with book when purchased. In protective mylar cover. Author won Canada's Governor Generals Award for ``A Jest of God``. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 382 pp.