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The Diviners

Margaret Laurence,

Margaret Atwood (Afterword )

Start date: March 1, 2014

Finish date: May 31, 2014

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Jul 20, 2011 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: late-20th-century, 1001-books, women

I just finished this 1/2 hour ago with tears streaming. I have only a fragment of an idea of what I think, nor if 5 stars is right. I read her The Stone Angel at least 40 years ago before I moved here, and was very disappointed not to find her shelved in my library. When I picked this up at the library book sale (I think it was), I felt as if it must be a treasure.

This is told in such an interesting manner. Each chapter starts in the present, then Laurence takes the reader back in time - memoryb ...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Miriam rated it it was amazing

I read this when I was about 16, and Christy's "by their garbage shall ye know them" speech was life changing. Love this book. I've read it multiple times, but haven't re-read it in about 15 years. I should again. ...more

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Jan 03, 2023 Rosemary rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books

When the book opens, Morag Gunn is a writer living in Ontario, with an 18-year-old daughter who is worryingly intent on hitchhiking to the west of Canada. In flashbacks (called "memorybank movies") we slowly hear about Morag's childhood as an orphan in the small rural town of Manawaka, where she was taken in by an impoverished couple, and how she survived and escaped to college while always carrying that life in her deepest being.

I loved this book! I've enjoyed everything I've read by Margaret L ...more

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