Manawaka · 1964 · citedThe Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley, proud, unbending and afraid, looks back over her hard life on the Manitoba prairie as she flees her son's house rather than be put in a home. Laurence's Manawaka, drawn from the real prairie town of Neepawa, anchors the memory: the Currie store and the blind marble angel in the cemetery, the Shipley farm of her rough marriage, and the west-coast city where her old age plays out its last defiant days.
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