A fine portrait of a fierce old woman and the lives she dominated and diminished. It is not until the final moments of her life that Hagar reaches out to those around her and finds the love she had never been able to give. Distraught and confused the old woman escapes from Marvin and Doris and wanders Lear fashion, through fields and woods remembering - leaving Bram, raising John, her return and Bram's death, and her interventions in John's love affair which led to John's violent death. Stone Angel STARRED REVIEW Jane Yolen has crafted a moving portrayal of one little girls faith, her familys courage, and the triumph of goodness over. The memories crowd back on the elderly woman- her childhood in a farming community in Canada her marriage against the wishes of her shrewd, domineering father, to the rough, vulgar Bram Shipley the boyhood of her two sons - loyal plodding Marvin and John, the son she loved. In the home of her son Marvin and his wife Doris, Hagar finds herself an irritating and irritated encumbrance intending to fight the selling of her house and the nursing home to her last breath. Laurence deals with intrafamilial problems, as against the intercultural questions in her short stories that follow. In this story of a woman's lifelong struggle out of emotional isolation, Mrs. It is an expression of the publisher's great respect for this writer. This is the first of three books by a Canadian all to be published simultaneously, and all reviewed in this issue (the third, which is non-fiction, on a later page).
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