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The Stone Angel
by Laurence, Margaret
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- near fine
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto / Montreal: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1964. Hardcover. near fine. 1st Canadian Edition. 308pp. + 2 leaves. Octavo in original (teal) cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on spine and front cover. Clean tight text block. Long Edge of outer text block untrimmed, yellow top edge of text block. In illustrated orange and brown dust jacket, not price clipped. Worn, and chipped at edges, with some light chipping and small closed tears. A nice copy. First state binding of the first edition- as differentiated by a more elaborate gilting on the spine, richer cloth colour and the gilt ML insignia on the front cover. Near fine condition. A2 in Lecker and David's Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors. Rare first Canadian Edition of the Manitoba authors most famous book, which was later made into a film. The story, in parallel narratives, is set in the past and the present-day (early 1960s), the Stone Ang0el tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley. In the present-day narrative, 94-year-old Hagar is struggling against being put in a nursing home, which she sees as a symbol of death. The present-day narrative alternates with Hagar's looking back at her life. 1964
Synopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 131856
- Title
- The Stone Angel
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto / Montreal
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Canadian Author|Canadian Literature
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