Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel McClelland & Stewart, 1964 Virago Modern Classic No. 251 The Afterword in my McClelland & Stewart edition is written by Adele Wiseman, long-time friend of Margaret Laurence, and it contains several long excerpts from the letters exchanged between the writing friends (Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice and Crackpot
Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God McClelland & Stewart, 1966 Rachel Cameron's List of Problems: 1. Mother 2. Work 3. Loneliness 4. Manawaka life and last, but not least, 5. Rachel Cameron. Her mother is getting older, and she not only has heart problems, but a brilliant capacity for passive-aggressive
Donez Xiques' Margaret Laurence: The Making of a Writer Dundurn Press, 2005 There are many biographical and critical works about Margaret Laurence. If you're interested in her writing, you might appreciate the pioneering works of Clara Thomas, her 1969 biography, named for her subject, or The Manawaka World of Margaret Laurence (1975).
Camille Yarbrough's The Shimmershine Queens Putnam-Penguin 1989 When I've had one of those soulfully-exhausting days (or weeks), one of the things that I like to do is browse in the children's library. I have my favourite branches, but often this is a hasty act of desperation which involves stopping at
Carlos Maria Dominguez’s The House of Paper (2004) Trans. from the Spanish, Nick Caistor Illus. Peter Sis Harcourt, 2005 My first thought when it came to trying to describe this small, slim volume was that it was like Anne Fadiman's Ex Libris mixed with Bohumil Hrabal's Too Loud a Solitude. But that's not
