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Wonderful book- the reader finds empathy, if not sympathy, with the main character- A proud, crotchety old woman. Anyone who has ever had to deal with the last years/days of an aged parent, should read this.
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"And then..." are the two simple, ordinary words Margaret Laurence uses to close her minor masterpiece,The Stone Angel to end the life of Hagar Shipley. To make simple words say so much!
Hagar is in hospital, dying, tho' she doesn't know it until she spills her glass of water in her hospital bed, then blinks out. The
"almighty terror" - as described by her caretaking son to a nurse - had the apparent misfortune of being born Scottish and so being upset into a world of dreadful self-co ...more
"And then..." are the two simple, ordinary words Margaret Laurence uses to close her minor masterpiece,The Stone Angel to end the life of Hagar Shipley. To make simple words say so much!
Hagar is in hospital, dying, tho' she doesn't know it until she spills her glass of water in her hospital bed, then blinks out. The
"almighty terror" - as described by her caretaking son to a nurse - had the apparent misfortune of being born Scottish and so being upset into a world of dreadful self-co ...more
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