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Unless

By: Carol Shields

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2002

Seller ID: 0013149

ISBN: 0679311807

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"Unless you're lucky, unless you're healthy, fertile, unless you're loved and fed, unless you're offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair."

Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived l...
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The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Carol Shields

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Vintage: 2002

Seller ID: 0037257

ISBN: 0394223802

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Larry's Party

By: Carol Shields

Price: $7.99

Publisher: Viking: 1997

Seller ID: 0067618

ISBN: 0670873926

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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The Republic Of Love

By: Carol Shields

Price: $11.00

Publisher: Vintage: 1992

Seller ID: 0078354

ISBN: 0394224175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

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 on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times.

Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations? Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love a...
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Dropped Threads

By: Carol Shields And Marjorie Anderson (editors)

Price: $11.48

Publisher: Vintage Canada: 2001

Seller ID: 0078110

ISBN: 0679310711

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

The idea came up over lunch between two old friends. There was a need for a book that, eschewing sensationalism and simplistic answers, would examine the holes in the fabric of women's talk of the last thirty or forty years. The contributors, a cross-section of women, would be asked to explore defining moments in their lives rarely aired in common discourse: truths they had never shared, subjects they hadn't written about before or otherwise found a place for. What Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson wanted to hear about were the experiences that had brought unexpected pleasure or disappointme...
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Author:Carol Shields

Unless

The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize)

Larry's Party

The Republic Of Love

Dropped Threads