The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679313273 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 608 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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“What a perfect fall day.” “What glorious blooms!” “Why Mr. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections – Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival – in one volume, along with the previously unpublished story, “Segue,” her last.With an eye for the smallest of telling details – a woman applying her lipstick so “the shape of pale raspberry fits perfectly the face she knows by heart” – and a willingness to explore the most fundamental relationships and the wildest of coincidences, Shields illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all our lives. Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Henning, this bread is still warm! Can this be true?”From the Hardcover edition.. Lately everything to do with my essence has become transparent, neutral: Good mor
"Five Stars" according to C Morrison. excellent--she is one of the best. Amazon Customer said Wow!. The only thing I read by Carol Shields before was the lovely little bio on Jane Austen. So I chose the Collected Short Stories to see what she is all about. I am fascinated. She has this straightforward voice yet likes to also play with your head. Extremely enthralling and delightful. I eat these stories up one after the other like they were fine confections. Never overswe
I’m spending my time listening, listening to what's going around, what's happening around me instead of trying to get it all down.” In 2000, Shields and her husband Don moved from Winnipeg to Victoria, where they lived until her passing on July 16, 2003, from complications of breast cancer, at age 68.From the Hardcover edition.. And Shields’s final novel, Unless, was shortlisted for the Booker, Orange and Giller prizes and the Governor Ge
They're prismatic; they delight at first by the clear and simple elegance with which they are made, then there is something so bountiful and surprising, like beautiful broken lights."—Alice Munro"Every story in this collection is a small, glittering masterpiece."—National Post"A radiant gift, a brilliant archive."—Winnipeg Free Press"Wry, witty, wise and fiercely intelligent."—Janette Turner Hospital"These poignant stories revel in the ordinary, with a few side-trips to the sublime."—Washington Post"Intelligent, provocative and entertaining."—T