Author:Carol Shields

""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 life d... View more info

The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize)

By: Carol Shields

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Publisher: Vintage: 2002

Seller ID: 0037257

ISBN: 0394223802

Condition: Good

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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

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... View more info

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The Stone Diaries (Pulitzer Prize)

Dropped Threads