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A JEST OF GOD
by Laurence, Margaret
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771047010
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047015
- Seller
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Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1972. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Second Printing. 8vo. Trade paperback format. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased but slightly faded spine; no interior markings. Directed by Paul Newman, this was filmed in 1968 as Rachel, Rachel, starring Joanne Woodward, James Olson, Kate Harrington, Estelle Parsons, Donald Moffat, Geraldine Fitzgerald and a host of others..
Synopsis
Margaret Laurence was born in Neepawa, Manitoba, in 1926. Upon graduation from Winnipeg’s United College in 1947, she took a job as a reporter for the Winnipeg Citizen. From 1950 until 1957 Laurence lived in Africa, the first two years in Somalia, the next five in Ghana, where her husband, a civil engineer, was working. She translated Somali poetry and prose during this time, and began her career as a fiction writer with stories set in Africa. When Laurence returned to Canada in 1957, she settled in Vancouver, where she devoted herself to fiction with a Ghanaian setting: in her first novel, This Side Jordan , and in her first collection of short fiction, The Tomorrow-Tamer . Her two years in Somalia were the subject of her memoir, The Prophet’s Camel Bell . Separating from her husband in 1962, Laurence moved to England, which became her home for a decade, the time she devoted to the creation of five books about the fictional town of Manawaka, patterned after her birthplace, and its people: The Stone Angel , A Jest of God , The Fire-Dwellers , A Bird in the House , and The Diviners . Laurence settled in Lakefield, Ontario, in 1974. She complemented her fiction with essays, book reviews, and four children’s books. Her many honours include two Governor General’s Awards for Fiction and more than a dozen honorary degrees. Margaret Laurence died in Lakefield, Ontario in 1987.
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- Bookseller
- W. Fraser Sandercombe
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 232950
- Title
- A JEST OF GOD
- Author
- Laurence, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771047010
- ISBN 13
- 9780771047015
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1972
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- the diviners; fantasy; canadian author; literary; small press; magazine; journal; journalism; the stone angel; a jest of god; governor general's award; molson prize; president's medal; order of canada; rachel rachel; movie; film; motion picture; c
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- Literature;
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W. Fraser Sandercombe
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Burlington, Ontario
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