The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
The Diviners, Margaret Laurence
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The Diviners

Author: Margaret Laurence

Narrator: Athena Karkanis

Unabridged: 18 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/06/2024


Synopsis

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Andy on April 17, 2023

I'm speechless. Wordless. This book was incredible. I think it might be one of the best I've ever read. Too early to tell, of course, but I have a feeling that it will hold a special place in my heart for years to come.......more

Goodreads review by Erin on November 04, 2012

There are some things that enrich my life beyond all expectation or proportion: baths, bike rides, sex, and let me say it now: Margaret Laurence. I’ve long suspected she might be my favourite author (despite my discomfort with A Jest of God, I loved the book; The Stone Angel is near perfect in its c......more

Goodreads review by Susan's Reviews on September 05, 2019

I loved this rather racy book by Margaret Laurence. The book focuses on the life and loves of Morag Gunn, a fiercely independent young woman who scratches her way out of dire poverty, manages to go to university, marry one of her professors, then have an affair and a child with her childhood friend......more

Goodreads review by Lark on June 04, 2023

I have finished this book and I'm so glad I'm done with it. I can tell it's brilliant but at the same time I need to admit to myself that it bored me silly. I just need to throw that out there, this little bit of shameful truth, and to acknowledge my inability to appreciate this great, great book. A......more


Quotes

“A pleasure to read! . . . Richly textured, beautifully written.” —The New Yorker

“Leaves us breathless and cheering.” —Montreal Gazette