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The Stone Angel - (Large Print book)
by Laurence, Margaret
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- ISBN 10
- 0919155022
- ISBN 13
- 9780919155022
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London, ON, Canada: Gatefold Books Ltd., 1980. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, LARGE PRINT, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, 308 pages, Very Good Plus condtiion with just a few rubbing spots on the front. Check out the scans. . 1st Thus 1980 . Soft Cover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Cover design by Bill Foster;. 4to.
Synopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen . From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1987. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 011134
- Title
- The Stone Angel - (Large Print book)
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Illustrator
- Cover design by Bill Foster;
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus
- Edition
- 1st Thus 1980
- ISBN 10
- 0919155022
- ISBN 13
- 9780919155022
- Publisher
- Gatefold Books Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Laurence, Margaret The Stone Angel - (Large Print book) Cover design by Bill Foster; Gatefold Books Ltd. 0919155022 -----The scan you see is the book you get. Large soft cover/trade, LARGE PRINT, tight square and clean, flat uncreased spine, 308 pa
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; CanLit;
- Size
- 4to
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- Rubbing
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