The Stone Angel
ISBN: 0770415113 Global Overview for this book
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The cover and description are very 70s feminine, but I've been assured that it is real literature. I think this is just what they used to do to female authors.
Released 13 yrs ago (2/12/2011 UTC) at Science Museum in South Kensington, Greater London United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Finished this on the plane over. Margaret Laurence is one of the big names in Canadian literature (despite the awful cover, not to mention all the blurbs about how she destroys every man she loves, which has nothing to do with the story--I think that in the 70s they just felt that women needed blurbs like this to read books. If you're looking for romance, you will be sorely disappointed.) I didn't like the novel as much as I'd hoped, and can't completely explain why, but I'd still definitely recommend it. It covers the life of a woman who is recalling it in her old age in the 1970s. I found that the narrations of the events of her life didn't always grab me (which I guess is realistic), but the descriptions of her feelings as this goes on did strike a chord with me, and would have been impossible without the framework of the narrations. Also, had the author left more out, I likely would have wanted to know more. An easy novel to find in Canada, where it's often taught in highschools, but probably harder to find elsewhere.
Given the traffic in the museum, I'm guessing that the book has likely been moved or cleaned up, especially since it's taken me this long to get to internet to make the release notes. If you're interested, try asking if it's been put in the lost and found or something like that.
Happy reading!