McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1968, 13th reprint.  ISBN 0-7710-9159-1.  MMPB, 308 pages followed by About the Author and New Canadian Library list.  Wraps have edge and cover wear, corner and reading creases, scratches, age toning/spotting.  Binding sound with a slight skew; foxing on top page block.  Prior owner’s name on verso of front wrap; remainder of interior clean and unmarked with tanned pages; FEP may have been removed.   ‘…the uncompromising story of Hagar Shipley - as seen through Hagar’s own eyes at the age of ninety.  Her reflections on her past emerge as a series of vigorously etched portraits:  life as a young girl in the bleak prairie town; marriage to a virile but negligent farmer; the relationship with her two sons – the conventional Marvin, and the flamboyant John whom she eventually destroys; middle-age and widowhood, and finally the old woman, querulous, short-tempered, still armoured by her steely humour – still isolated by her life-long habits of pride and self-reliance.’ (from rear wrap)