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For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town made her a fighter, a cynic, a romantic. A failed marriage, a heartbreaking affair and solitude forced her to develop a special way of being with a life strengthened by dignity and the ability to give and receive love.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Laurence
- First published
- January 1, 1978
- Pages
- 467
- Publisher
- alfed a. knopf, inc., gatefold books, Virago
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- French, Spanish, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780333156957
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“The river flowed both ways.”
Jean Margaret Laurence (née Wemyss; July 18, 1926 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, and is one of the major figures in Canadian literature. She was also a founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community.
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