![]() Hagar's character and voice are justly praised as Laurence's most inspired creations. The Stone Angel is shaped by the alternating rhythms of Hagar's voice, searching through her past and returning to her present condition her widely ranging tones reveal the labyrinths of her pride. Hagar at 90 is a proud, powerful, tyrannical woman suffering the indignities of old age. Hagar Shipley relives her life by narrating memories as she battles to come to terms with herself before she dies. The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence (Toronto, London and New York, 1964), is the first of Laurence's "Manawaka" novels. ![]() ![]() Hagar Shipley's character and voice are justly praised as Laurence's most inspired creations (courtesy McClelland & Stewart). ![]()
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