- Women, Fiction, Fiction, general, Canada, fiction
A pioneer Canadian woman reviews her long life and realizes that she has sacrificed life's fleeting sweetness to her fear of weakness, and to her pride.
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Contemplative, earnest, grave and character-led.
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Laurence
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 308
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus, Informations Forlag, Bantam Books
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- French, und, English, Italian
- ISBN
- 9781784977696
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“ABOVE THE TOWN, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand.”
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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