The Diviners
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The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, <i>The Diviners</i> 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. <i>The Diviners</i> 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. <i>The Diviners</i> received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.
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The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
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- Released
- 1984
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- (Paperback),
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- Good
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- Title
- The Diviners
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Margaret Laurence
- Publisher
- Seal Press
- Released
- 1984
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 467
- ISBN10
- 0770420451
- ISBN13
- 9780770420451
- Series
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- The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, <i>The Diviners</i> 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. <i>The Diviners</i> 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. <i>The Diviners</i> received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.