About this title: Hagar Shipley, of Manawaka, Canada, is 90 years old. Blind, proud, desperately unhappy, she has spent her life denying her emotions and struggling to be wholly independent of people. As she nears the end of her life, the cracks in her self-sufficient facade are widening; the novel chronicles Hagar's life and the developments that lead to her ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780226469362ISBN:0226469360
Description: A good reading copy only. May have underlining or highlighting throughout. Heavy marginalia throughout. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780226469362ISBN:0226469360
Description: Good. 58-X-Add Books rated "Good" may have some notes, underlining, or highlighting. These books also may contain the previous owner's name, stamp, sticker, or gift inscription, or may be library discards. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
New York Times "This is revelation not impersonation. The effect of such skilled use of language is to lead the reader toward the self-recognition that Hagar misses." -- Robertson Davies
New Republic "A portrait of a remarkable character and at the same time the picture of old age itself, with the pain, the weariness, the terror, the impotent angers and physical mishaps, the realization that others are waiting and wishing for an end."
Margaret Laurence "Part of [Hagar's] goal is simply survival--to survive until the moment she dies, with some kind of dignity and some kind of human value. But at the same time, the great theme at the end is the theme of freedom. She has always tried to put the hooks on people, to influence people, to manipulate them, her husband and her sons, and she has never really allowed them to go free, so she has never been free herself: this is what she comes to understand in the very last days of her life."
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