|Listed in category:
Have one to sell?

The Stone Angel by Laurence, Margaret

by Laurence, Margaret | PB | Good
Condition:
Good
Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, ... Read moreAbout condition
Price:
US $16.08
ApproximatelyEUR 14.87
Postage:
Free Economy Shipping. See detailsfor postage
Located in: Aurora, Illinois, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Thu, 13 Jun and Sat, 15 Jun to 43230
Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's dispatch time, origin postcode, destination postcode and time of acceptance and will depend on delivery service selected and receipt of cleared paymentcleared payment - opens in a new window or tab. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.
Returns:
30 days return. Seller pays for return postage. See details- for more information about returns
Payments:
    

Shop with confidence

eBay Money Back Guarantee
Get the item you ordered or your money back. 

Seller information

Registered as a business seller
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:196292192716

Item specifics

Condition
Good
A book that has been read, but is in good condition. Minimal damage to the book cover eg. scuff marks, but no holes or tears. If this is a hard cover, the dust jacket may be missing. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. No highlighting of text, no writing in the margins, and no missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Seller notes
“Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, ...
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Weight
0 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
No
ISBN
9780770421403
Publication Year
1984
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Book Title
Stone Angel
Author
Margaret Laurence
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Genre
Non-Classifiable, Fiction
Topic
General
Item Weight
5.4 Oz

About this product

Product Information

The Stone Angel, The Diviners, and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret Laurence's renowned "Manawaka series," named for the small Canadian prairie town in which they take place. Each of these books is narrated by a strong woman growing up in the town and struggling with physical and emotional isolation. In The Stone Angel, Hagar Shipley, age ninety, tells the story of her life, and in doing so tries to come to terms with how the very qualities which sustained her have deprived her of joy. Mingling past and present, she maintains pride in the face of senility, while recalling the life she led as a rebellious young bride, and later as a grieving mother. Laurence gives us in Hagar a woman who is funny, infuriating, and heartbreakingly poignant. "This is a revelation, not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader towards the self-recognition that Hagar misses."--Robertson Davies, New York Times "It is [Laurence's] admirable achievement to strike, with an equally sure touch, the peculiar note and the universal; she gives us a portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."--Honor Tracy, The New Republic "Miss Laurence is the best fiction writer in the Dominion and one of the best in the hemisphere."--Atlantic "[Laurence] demonstrates in The Stone Angel that she has a true novelist's gift for catching a character in mid-passion and life at full flood. . . . As [Hagar Shipley] daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing--and the most touching--portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Cary's The Horse's Mouth."--Time "Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."--Granville Hicks, Saturday Review "The Stone Angel is a good book because Mrs. Laurence avoids sentimentality and condescension; Hagar Shipley is still passionately involved in the puzzle of her own nature. . . . Laurence's imaginative tact is strikingly at work, for surely this is what it feels like to be old."--Paul Pickrel, Harper's

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Doubleday Canada
ISBN-10
0770421407
ISBN-13
9780770421403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
125159332

Product Key Features

Book Title
Stone Angel
Author
Margaret Laurence
Format
Mass Market
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1984
Genre
Non-Classifiable, Fiction

Dimensions

Item Weight
5.4 Oz

Additional Product Features

Reviews
"One of the most convincing and the most touching portraits of an unregenerate sinner." Time From the Hardcover edition.
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21

Item description from the seller

Business seller information

Thrift Books Global, LLC
TB Thrift Books
18300 Cascade Ave S
Ste 150
98188 Seattle, WA
United States
Show contact information
:liamEmoc.skoobtfirht@yabe.selas
I certify that all my selling activities will comply with all EU laws and regulations.
ThriftBooks

ThriftBooks

99% positive Feedback
17.7M items sold
Usually responds within 24 hours

Detailed seller ratings

Average for the last 12 months

Accurate description
4.9
Reasonable postage cost
5.0
Delivery time
5.0
Communication
4.9
Registered as a business seller

Seller Feedback (5,211,571)

a***e (3367)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Great condition that exceeded listing profile and received quickly.
c***i (1)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
Great
s***0 (53)- Feedback left by buyer.
Past month
Verified purchase
The book is in good shape, just what I was looking for, thank you!