- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Cdn Adult Tp (19 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006391869
- ISBN-13: 978-0006391869
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,757,148 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise For The Stubborn Season
6 Sep 2002
Lauren Davis' book tells the story of a family and a nation coming of age during the Great Depression.Irene is a little girl struggling to find her own voice and her own truth while her mother, Margaret struggles to maintain her sanity. Margaret's world does not include change or any little shift in the wind that could threaten her balancing act. She needs her daughter and her husband to stay cocooned in their tiny little house.At the same time the farmers in the dust bowl that the prairies have become, are fighting to survive. Workers are fighting to be safe. Political activists are fighting for truth and dignity for everyone.
The great joy in reading this book was the honesty of all of the voices, particularily the ones that make the reader uncomfortable.The characters in this book are all in the end ordinary people faced with difficult choices. Sometimes they fail, but sometimes there are moments of grace that are breath taking.
The great joy in reading this book was the honesty of all of the voices, particularily the ones that make the reader uncomfortable.The characters in this book are all in the end ordinary people faced with difficult choices. Sometimes they fail, but sometimes there are moments of grace that are breath taking.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
The Stubborn Season
5 Sep 2002
The Stubborn Season is a brilliant, hopeful novel about the strength of the human spirit. Set in Toronto during the Great Depression, the characters push and struggle not only within a society consumed in poverty and inequity, but also within their own stubborn seasons of the soul.
A young girl, Irene, raised by an alcoholic father and mentally-ill mother bravely pulls herself away from the bleakness and despair of her family, just as the country pulls itself from the ashes of the Depression. Ms. Davis uses history and intimacy, each reflecting the other, to give us a haunting coming-of-age portrait.
In the end, Ms. Davis assures us, we each of us are individuals, shaped by events and the people closest to us, but ultimately, with a character and a destiny uniquely our own.
Although this is ultimately Irene's story, the characters of the mother and father are created in such a way as to give the reader true insight into the emotional life of these tortured people. Ultimately, the reader empathizes with each, even as we cheer Irene in her attempts to break free.
Bravo! I look forward to reading more from this delightful author!
A young girl, Irene, raised by an alcoholic father and mentally-ill mother bravely pulls herself away from the bleakness and despair of her family, just as the country pulls itself from the ashes of the Depression. Ms. Davis uses history and intimacy, each reflecting the other, to give us a haunting coming-of-age portrait.
In the end, Ms. Davis assures us, we each of us are individuals, shaped by events and the people closest to us, but ultimately, with a character and a destiny uniquely our own.
Although this is ultimately Irene's story, the characters of the mother and father are created in such a way as to give the reader true insight into the emotional life of these tortured people. Ultimately, the reader empathizes with each, even as we cheer Irene in her attempts to break free.
Bravo! I look forward to reading more from this delightful author!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Stubborn Season, Lauren B. Davis
20 Sep 2010
Format:Paperback
Irene's story, set in Toronto, Canada in the 1930's, describes family life, The Depression, alcoholism, and mental illness, as a child grows up amidst dark and adult issues. The sentences of Ms. Davis are eloquent and lovely, deep and clear,haunting and worthy of a second read. Each character becomes alive as you wish to learn more about them, because you care. Stones from the River (World War II) comes to mind while reading Ms. Davis's compelling book, in its honesty, and researched historic content of the Depression. I highly recommend this book, and look forward to delving into it again and again. Ms. Davis is a gifted writer, using words flawlessly to ease the reader into her world.
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