The stone angel
Ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley reflects on a life of rigid pride. In a series of sharply etched vignettes, the tragedy of all Hagar has lost is revealed. The motherless daughter of the wealthiest man in the prairie town of Manawaka, she is schooled in contempt from early childhood and marries, on a stubborn whim, a rough farmer. She wages a fierce domestic war with Bram, the hard-drinking husband she secretly loves, and closes her heart to her...
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