The Diviners (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Margaret Wemyss
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Kunstlerroman
- Time of Work: From 1930 to the 1970’s
- Setting: Manawaka (a small town in Manitoba), Toronto, and Vancouver
- Principal Characters: Morag Gunn, Jules (Skinner) Tonnerre, Pique Gunn Tonnerre, Brooke Skelton, Dan Mcraith, Christie Logan, Prin Logan, Royland
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, Self-discovery, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Extrasensory perception or powers, Marriage, Writing, College life, Novelists, Women’s issues, Single parents or single-parent families, Adultery, Death or dying, Adoption or adopted children, Canada or Canadians, Rivers or waterways, Small-town life, Heroes or heroism, Water
- Locales: Toronto, Canada, Vancouver, Canada, Manawaka, Canada
The Novel
Morag Gunn is a successful forty-seven-year-old novelist who has bought a farm in rural Ontario, where she is trying to write a new novel. The discovery of some snapshots of her as a small child sets off a series of recollections; The Diviners is the story of Morag’s life, told in chronologically arranged flashbacks alternating with events in her present.
Morag was orphaned young and brought up in the small Manitoba town of Manawaka by Christie Logan, the despised town scavenger, and his increasingly obese and inactive wife, Prin. They do not have much to...
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