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      Swann

      by Carol Shields
      Published
      Jul 1989
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      320
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      Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.

      Swann       is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

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      General Fiction

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      Literary

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      Aug 1990 Penguin ISBN13 9780140134292 ISBN10 0140134298
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      Dec 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN13 9781480459847 ISBN10 1480459844
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      First Edition Jul 1989 Viking ISBN13 9780670828227 ISBN10 067082822X
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      Jan 2011 Random House (Canada) ISBN13 9780307367242 ISBN10 030736724X
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      Jan 2011 Carol Shields Literary Trust ISBN10 B004IWRDCE
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      Dec 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN13 9781480459601 ISBN10 1480459607
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