Carol Shields

• Sep-2024
• / General Fiction
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Newly discovered work by one of Canada’s favourite writersThe Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935â€"2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays p...

• Nov-2011
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• Jun-2010
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• Mar-2009
• / General Fiction
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Early one morning when the sun came out, Six woolly wombats went walkabout.

This whimsical counting poem follows six brave little wombats on walkabout in the Australian outback. But the wilderness is bound to bring more excitement than an innocent ...

• Dec-2005
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With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illum...

• May-2005
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• Jan-2004
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• May-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a pl...

• May-2000
• / General Fiction
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A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize)All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed n...

• May-1999
• / General Fiction
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For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing letters. Each finds this intimate and exhilarating, as they are able to reveal things that woul...

• Sep-1997
• / General Fiction
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The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry's Party Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, ir...

• Jun-1996
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• Jun-1996
• / General Fiction
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The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life's setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply ...

• Sep-1995
• / Women's Fiction
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The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When s...

• Mar-1994
• / General Fiction
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In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalize...

• Feb-1992
• / General Fiction
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With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing ...

• Aug-1990
• / General Fiction
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Mary Swann submitted a paper bag of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi just hours before her husband hacked her to death. Who is Mary Swann and how could she have produced these works of genius? Four local characters, including the local libra...

• Jul-1990
• / General Fiction
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A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award.Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us i...

• Jul-1989
• / General Fiction
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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 discove...

• 1980
• / General Fiction
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These two unique companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and ques...

• 1977
• / General Fiction
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Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, ...