num_pages: 344
description: In her best-loved novel, The Stone Angel , Margaret Laurence introduces Hagar Shipley, one of the most memorable characters in Canadian fiction. Stubborn, querulous, self-reliant – and, at ninety, with her life nearly behind her – Hagar Shipley makes a bold last step towards freedom and independence.As her story unfolds, we are drawn into her past. We meet Hagar as a young girl growing up in a black prairie town; as the wife of a virile but unsuccessful farmer with whom her marriage was stormy; as a mother who dominates her younger son; and, finally, as an old woman isolated by an uncompromising pride and by the stern virtues she has inherited from her pioneer ancestors.Vivid, evocative, moving, The Stone Angel celebrates the triumph of the spirit, and reveals Margaret Laurence at the height of her powers as a writer of extraordinary craft and profound insight into the workings of the human heart.
language: English
title: The Stone Angel
titlecomplete: The Stone Angel
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, School, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 12374
series: Manawaka Sequence
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: CBC Canada Reads
publisher: McClelland & Stewart