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In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.

Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable.

A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was released as the successful film, Rachel, Rachel. The novel stands as a poignant and singularly enduring work by one of the world’s most distinguished authors. Classics Literary Fiction Genre Fiction Family Life World Literature

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“Fresh and arresting . . . unforgettably good and nothing less than brilliant.”
–Maclean’s

“Superb and movingly human.”
—Saturday Review
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It is even better than I remember. It has held up remarkably over the decades.

Brilliant.

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