Carol Shields, Author . HarperCollins/Fourth Estate $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-00-714107-4
"If I have any reputation at all it is for being an editor and scholar, and not for producing, to everyone's amazement, a 'fresh, bright, springtime piece of fiction,' or so it was described in Publishers Weekly." That cheeky...
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Carol Shields, Author . Fourth Estate $29.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-06-076203-2
Shields, who died in 2003, was best known for her novels (The Stone Diaries
; Unless
), though she published three collections of stories over as many decades, here elegantly gathered and introduced by fellow Canadian and friend Margaret Atwood....
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $10.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-025136-4
Charleen Forrest, Judith Gill's sister (see Small Ceremonies, above), is obsessive and hyper-romantic, a poet who no longer writes because ``having given away the well of myself, there is nowhere to go''--except inward. Which is why she looks for...
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Carol Shields, Author Viking Books $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-85309-0
Canadian writer Shields's novels and short stories ( Swann ; The Republic of Love , etc.) are intensely imagined, humanely generous, beautifully sustained and impeccably detailed. Despite rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic, she has yet to...
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Carol Shields, Author Viking Books $23.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-88921-1
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Shields infuses this enigmatic and quirky collection of 22 short stories with ingenious characterizations in heartfelt tales that are mostly character sketches capturing the gestural, kinetic truths about the lives...
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $12 (192p) ISBN 978-0-14-011837-7
The 21 stories in this maddeningly uneven collection replay a single theme: people's ``obliviousness to the million invisible filaments of connection, trivial or profound, which bind them one to the other and to the small green planet they call home.
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Carol Shields, Author Viking Books $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-82822-7
Viking has wisely decided not to publish this fascinating novel as a mystery, as it was designated in Canada, where it earned excellent reviews. While two (rather bland) mysteries animate the plot, the book's considerable impact is as a combination...
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Carol Shields, Author Viking Books $17.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-670-83327-6
Although a variety of well-realized voices animate the 12 stories in Shields's fine collection, they are all plainspoken and direct--the hallmarks of her sturdy prose. All stories except three are set in her native Canada; most have as protagonists...
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $15 (384p) ISBN 978-0-14-014990-6
Love at first sight becomes new, as Shields delights the reader with her carefully polished prose. (Apr.)
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $15 (416p) ISBN 978-0-14-017951-4
Shields ( The Stone Diaries , Fiction Forecasts, Dec. 13) delivers a tour de force with these companion novels examining the two halves of one 20-year marriage. Quiltmaker Brenda Bowman leaves her home in a Chicago suburb to attend a crafts...
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $15 (361p) ISBN 978-0-14-023313-1
An aged woman discovers herself as she reflects upon her life, which spans much of the 20th century. (Apr.)
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Carol Shields, Author Penguin Books $12 (194p) ISBN 978-0-14-025145-6
On the surface, there's nothing about Judith Gill that would recommend her as an ideal protagonist. She's ordinary: wife of a rather remote academic, mother of adolescents she no longer really knows, biographer of arcane subjects. But Shields's gift
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Carol Shields, Author Viking Penguin $19.95 (185p) ISBN 978-0-670-89488-8
Penguin's wonderful series of ""lives,"" biographies unique in their manageable length and careful pairing of subjects with authors who are themselves important creative figures, delights once again, this time with a pithy literary biography of Jane
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Carol Shields, Author, Blanche Howard, Author, Blanche Howard, Joint Author Penguin Books $12.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-027511-7
Friends for three decades, the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Stone Diaries and Canadian novelist Howard (The Manipulator) collaborated on this touching, if facile, epistolary novel. First published in Canada in 1991, the work follows 10 months
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Carol Shields, Author, Edward R. F. Sheehan, Author Viking Books $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-87392-0
A chronicle of one ordinary man's life as he searches--at first, bumblingly and inarticulately--for happiness and the meaning of existence, this triumphant novel runs in delicious counterpoint to Shields's evocation of Daisy Stone's life in the...
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