
The Diviners
(A book in the Manawka series)(1974)
A novel by
Margaret Laurence
| "It's hard to think of a contemporary novel more moving and more triumphant than THE DIVINERS." Sara Maitland |
The culmination and completion of Margaret Laurence’s celebrated Manawaka cycle, The Diviners is an epic novel.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.
This is the powerful story of an independent woman who refuses to abandon her search for love. For Morag Gunn, growing up in a small Canadian prairie town is a toughening process – putting distance between herself and a world that wanted no part of her. But in time, the aloneness that had once been forced upon her becomes a precious right – relinquished only in her overwhelming need for love. Again and again, Morag is forced to test her strength against the world – and finally achieves the life she had determined would be hers.
The Diviners has been acclaimed by many critics as the outstanding achievement of Margaret Laurence’s writing career. In Morag Gunn, Laurence has created a figure whose experience emerges as that of all dispossessed people in search of their birthright, and one who survives as an inspirational symbol of courage and endurance.
The Diviners received the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for 1974.
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Hardback Editions
September 1974 : Hardback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-333-15695-1 / 978-0-333-15695-7 (UK edition) Publisher: Macmillan Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1974 : Hardback
| Title: The Diviners. Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-394-49156-4 / 978-0-394-49156-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
December 2007 : Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7710-3490-3 / 978-0-7710-3490-9 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: New Canadian Library Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
September 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Diviners, The Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 1-84408-536-8 / 9781844085361 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1989 : Paperback
| Title: The Diviners (Manawka) Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-86068-818-6 / 978-0-86068-818-1 (UK edition) Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
1988 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Availability: Amazon More details... |
1987 : Mass Market Paperback
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1985 : Paperback
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October 1984 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7704-2045-1 / 978-0-7704-2045-1 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 1984 : Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7704-2176-8 / 978-0-7704-2176-2 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1982 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7704-1787-6 / 978-0-7704-1787-1 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
1981 : Mass Market Paperback
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1980 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7704-1642-X / 978-0-7704-1642-3 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Bantam Seal Availability: Amazon More details... |
1979 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: DIVINERS, The Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7704-1589-X (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: Seal Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
January 1978 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7710-9263-6 / 978-0-7710-9263-3 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: New Canadian Library Availability: Amazon CA More details... |
January 1976 : Paperback
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-552-67947-X / 978-0-552-67947-3 (UK edition) Publisher: Corgi Childrens Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1975 : Paperback
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1973 : Paperback
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Other Editions
October 1988 : Unbound
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7710-9986-X / 978-0-7710-9986-1 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: New Canadian Library Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
1974 : Unknown
| Title: The Diviners Author(s): Margaret Laurence ISBN: 0-7710-4748-7 / 978-0-7710-4748-0 (Canada (English speaking) edition) Publisher: MacMillan Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
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