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So begins The Fire-Dwellers, with Stacey MacAindra, formerly of Manawaka, Manitoba, now a suburban Vancouver housewife and mother of four, nearly 40, torn between flying away and flying home dwelling in the fires there until her children need her no more. I read this book for the first time when my eldest daughter was first born, and although I didn't feel trapped in suburban ennui, I could recognise the truth of Stac Ladybird, ladybird,
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Ladybird, ladybird, Fly away home Your house is on fire, Your children are gone. (Don't listen in, God - this is none of your business.). I was myself before any of you were born. It's still Margaret Laurence though, and it addresses an everyday person experiencing the agonies of an everyday life, so there are worse ways to spend one's time.
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I've now read all the books from the Manawaka series - this is my least favourite. I was also disappointed that she didn't describe the city of Vancouver with more love, care, and detail. It seems sacrilegious to say this about a Laurence book, but. Too many of the same going-nowhere fights between Stacey and Mac. Even halfway through the 300 pages, I still hadn't acclimatised to this system and found it annoying. Then, flashbacks to Manawaka, the small town where Stacey grew up, are indicated by an extra indentation. In addition, there are many, many (many) interior monologues that are indicated by a "-". And, often, periods at the end of dialogue sentences. For whatever reason, in this book (not her others, to the best of my memory) she abandons quotation marks. Maybe it was partly to do with the format. Somehow though, I didn't have the same connection with Stacey as I have with other Margaret Laurence heroines.
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It was probably pretty groundbreaking when it was published in 1969. I'm sure most people wake up at some point when the kids are fighting or the spark has disappeared from the bedroom or the house is a mess or money is scarce and they dream about when they were young and golden and the world was a hopeful, promising place, and think damn, is this IT?
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Let's face it, suburban family life ain't always what it's cracked up to be.
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It hit me early on that this is a Canadian, female version of Rabbit, Run. In this book, we see Stacey isn't so free-wheeling as her sister imagines. Rachel, who is living in tiny Manawaka with her controlling, hypochondriac mother, envies Stacey and her marriage, children, and ultimately her freedom living in Vancouver. She's also sister of Rachel from A Jest of God, which I recently read. She's mom of four, and wife of Mac, who is mainly a monosyllabic grump. It hi Better to marry than burn, St Paul said, but he didn't say what to do if you marry and burn.
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In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul.moreīetter to marry than burn, St Paul said, but he didn't say what to do if you marry and burn.
#The boogie man will get you in the shadows of doubt song full
Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the te Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past.