The diviners

Resource Information

The work The diviners represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The diviners

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Laurence

Creator

• Laurence, Margaret

Subject

• Canada -- Fiction
• Canadian fiction
• Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction
• Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
• Book club bag collection
• Women -- Canada -- Fiction
• Single-parent families -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction
• Canadian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel, now available as a Penguin Modern Classic. This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process{u2014}putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right{u2014}relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world{u2014}and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers. The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence's writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance

Cataloging source

CaOWLBI

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult