4th paperback printing in this edition

 

Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, remainder mark at bottom edge, price sticker on rear cover.

 

Publishing Info: New Canadian Library/McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1999

ISBN: 9780771089589

 

Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie's new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper's wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell Severance, whose pearl-handled revolver – the Swamp Angel – becomes Maggie's ambiguous talisman and the novel's symbolic core.

Ethel Wilson's best-loved novel, Swamp Angel first appeared in 1954. It remains an astute and powerful study of one woman's integrity and of the redemptive power of compassion.

 

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