The Diviners

{ Sept 2021 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 543 pages Published 1974 New Canadian Library (2007) Manawaka Sequence Afterword by: Timothy Findley (1988) The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel. 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 – 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 – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – 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. The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974 "Morag Gunn spends her entire life trying to escape her roots and adoptive parents in the small Canadian town of Manawaka, becoming trapped in a demeaning marriage, and then unwed parenthood, only to find herself back where she started, and dealing with a daughter who is, in turn, rejecting her." "The culmination of the Manawaka cycle, and Laurence's final novel, 'The Diviners' is an epic tour de force. It is the story of Morog Gunn, an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. We follow her from her lonely childhood in a small town on the Canadian prairie through her demeaning marriage and escape from it into writing fiction, and finally back to rural Canada, where she faces a different challenge -- the necessity to understand, and let go of, the daughter she loves. Throughout, Morog is forced to test her strength against the world -- and at last achieves the life she has determined would be hers." The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence's celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel. 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 ndash; 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 ndash; relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world ndash; and Margaret Laurence ; Afterword By Timothy Findley. Originally Published: 1974.