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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Repackaged as pa ...Show more
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story o ...Show more
UNLESS by SHIELDS CAROL
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
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 placard round her neck that says "Goodness."The final bo ...Show more
Unless by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
'I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road... Well now! What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep?' Reta Winters, aged 44, h ...Show more
Unless by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep? For all of her life, 44 year old ...Show more
Various Miracles by Carol Shields
Category: Fiction
A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries", runner-up for the Booker Prize in 1993. The stories are all concerned with moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances: wild coincidences, declarations of love, and startling revelations.