6/6/2023 0 Comments The stone angel book review![]() “Yet when he turned his hairy belly and his black-haired thighs toward me in the night, I would lie silent but waiting, and he could slither and swim like an eel in a pool of darkness. The only thing you never feel with Hagar Shipley is joy. She is, in the pages of Margaret Laurence’s 1964 masterpiece, so fully real that you feel her pain when she grieves her dead son, her sadness when she remembers her hate-filled marriage, and her fear as her world shrinks and the end nears. ![]() You see the book, beaten up from your hours of reading, and you realize that Hagar Shipley, the nonagenarian protagonist, is one of the few great and fully realized characters of Canadian literature, alongside Duddy Kravitz and…well, that’s it. ![]() It’s the day after you finish it, when you’re tying your shoes and see it on the coffee table, that you realize The Stone Angel has done something to you, that it’s now a part of your life. In an attempt to make himself a better Canadian, Craig MacBride is reading and reviewing the books that shaped this country. ![]()
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