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| Original Title: | The Stone Angel |
| ISBN: | 0887546315 (ISBN13: 9780887546310) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Manawaka(Canada) |
James W. Nichol
Paperback | Pages: 120 pages Rating: 3.99 | 4550 Users | 71 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Stone Angel |
| Author | : | James W. Nichol |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 120 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2002 by Playwrights Canada Press (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Classics. Literature. Canadian Literature. Adult Fiction. Academic. School |
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It is the late 1960s, and Hagar Shipley’s days are drawing to an end. In the course of an afternoon, Hagar’s life unfolds: her childhood in a small prairie town, her Scottish immigrant father, the tumultuous relationship with her now-estranged husband, her sons, and their partners. Based on the novel by Margaret Laurence.
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Ratings: 3.99 From 4550 Users | 71 ReviewsPiece Appertaining To Books The Stone Angel
It has been so long since I read this book ... think it high time to give it another shot. Can't remember the FEELINGS it evoked, only that it was an all out weekend read. Non-stop, got involved with the family, and Hagar Shipley, the dear old soul. Come to think about it, I've got to march right over to the bookcase and find my copy.This book is the tale of an allegedly intelligent woman who systematically ruins her life through bad decisions made not out of desire or common sense, but spite. It is boring, depressing, and completely inappropriate for young adults.
The movie was good but the novel was set in the late 60's when there weren't cell phone so I guess the movie was bumped ahead. This made it hard for me to reconcile the movie with my reading of the book when it first was published. Why change the era and have Hagar talking about smoking marijuana in the seventies unless it was to appeal to younger movie goers? But, hey it's about a 90 year old woman and some of us remember the 60's and liked that decade.
Ok. I read this when I was going through my "I haven't read any Canadian Literature besides Margaret Atwood and only her most popular books" phase. This was one of the top ten Canadian lit books of all time, so I figured I needed to read it. It wasn't "shout from the rafters" excellent, but it was a different kind of story in that it was from the perspective of an octogenarian woman, someone that society has cast-off or patronized once reaching a state where she's deemed to be of no value to
2011 re-read: A bit of a different experience this time around, reading it for a class on aging in fiction. Obviously I focused on that aspect of the text more this time around, and I really have to applaud Laurence's nuanced depiction of what a terrible experience it can be, especially the question of how far children and others have to go to support their parents, and who deserves our sympathy in this situation. I kind of wish Laurence had spent more time on the long torture of Hagar's present
This book goes back and forth between the last days of an old woman and her recollections of her life. I found the book as a whole to be hard and cold, a difficult read--reflecting a hard and cold life. At the same time, much of the writing was vivid and poetic and a joy.
After reading Wuthering Heights, this was another heavy book to swallow but not nearly as good. It was ok. I liked it when old, crotchety Hagar would make fun of and criticize others in her mind and sometimes out loud, but then it got old and annoying after awhile just as I suspect it would in real life. I did like the flashbacks into Hagar's life though. That was interesting. But I felt bad for the life that Hagar lived. So unhappy. And I cheered for no one in the book. There was no hero and
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