The Diviners
- Authors
- Laurence, Margaret
- Publisher
- New Canadian Library
- Tags
- classics
- ISBN
- 9781551992433
- Date
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.77 MB
- Lang
- en
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.
*From the Paperback edition.*