![]() ![]() ![]() As a young girl she refuses to rock her dying brother in the garments of their mother. The themes of pride and the prejudice that comes from social class recur in the novel. In a series of vignettes, The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Shipley, a 90-year-old woman struggling to come to grips with a life of intransigence and loss. This narrative alternates with Hagar looking back at her life. In the present, 90-year-old Hagar struggles against being put in a nursing home, which she sees as a symbol of death. In parallel narratives set in the past and the present-day (early 1960s), The Stone Angel tells the story of Hagar Currie Shipley. First published in 1964 by McClelland and Stewart, it is perhaps the best-known of Laurence's series of five novels set in the fictitious town of Manawaka, Manitoba. The Stone Angel is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Laurence. ![]()
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