Carol Ann Shields è stata un'autrice canadese di nascita americana che ha esplorato le complessità della vita quotidiana con profonda intuizione. Il suo lavoro spesso si addentra nella vita interiore dei suoi personaggi, esaminando le loro relazioni, i ricordi e i drammi silenziosi che plasmano la loro esistenza. Shields possedeva una straordinaria capacità di rendere l'ordinario straordinario, usando un linguaggio preciso ed evocativo per scoprire le complessità nascoste all'interno di narrazioni apparentemente semplici. La sua esplorazione di temi come l'identità, la famiglia e lo scorrere del tempo ha risuonato profondamente con i lettori, affermandola come una voce significativa nella letteratura contemporanea.
Fifty short writings by Carol Shields are compiled in this collection, featuring over two dozen previously unpublished stories and essays. These pieces provide unique insights into her creative journey, enriching the understanding of her literary contributions. Scholars and fans alike will find value in this exploration of Shields's writing life, as it showcases her diverse talent and the evolution of her work.
A celebration of love in its many guises, The Republic of Love recounts the heartfelt tale of two of life's unlucky lovers: Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man; and, right across the street, Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who s been through three marriages and divorces in his search for true happiness.
A rollicking rhyming dinosaur picture book for young children.
For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume. volumes: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival. Some of the stories in these individual collections have never before been published in the UK, and we add to these wonderful shorter fictions a chapter from Carol Shields' last, unfinished, novel Segue. that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.
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 book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors.
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time. 'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW
This is a new collection of short stories, which brings together the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to novels such as The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party.
In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. A CELIBATE SEASON is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, (Jock and Chas) and their self-imposed separation of ten months when Jock accepts a job in a city more than three thousand miles away from her family. As breadwinner and suddenly single again Jock is confronted with local politics, loneliness and advances from the opposite sex. Meanwhile back at home, Chas, an unemployed architect, is now a single parent who has to reacquaint himself with his teenage children, Mia and Greg, learn to run a household and shift his career priorities. Throw in an attractive young housekeeper, a mother-in-law who enjoys her wine, a touch of teenage angst, some unexpected home renovations and a disastrous Christmas dinner and you have modern family life.
5 Tage im Leben des über 15 Jahre verheirateten Ehepaaars Brenda und Jack Bowman, in denen sie jeweils aus eigener Sicht erzählen, geben ein gutes Bild von ihnen, ihrer Ehe und ihrer Entwicklung. Während Brenda erstmals in ihrer Ehe allein wegfliegt, um in Philadelphia an einer Kunsthandwerkerausstellung teilzunehmen, muss Jack sich um Haus und Restfamilie kümmern, Diese kurze Zeit der Trennung bringt für beide unvorhergesehene Überraschungen und Einsichten
Sind Sie ein typischer Mann? Was ist ein typischer Mann? Diese Frage stellt Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Carol Shields in diesem ironischen Roman, in dem - nicht ganz zufällig - die Frauen die Hosen anhaben. Am letzten Tag seiner Flitterwochen geht Larry Weller, ein junger Mann, für kurze Zeit zwischen den dunklen Hecken des Labyrinths von Hampton Court verloren: Ein Erlebnis, das sein Leben einschneidend verändert. Denn von nun an träumt Larry davon, ein phantastischer Landschaftsgärtner zu werden, Spezialität Irrgärten. Ein Traum, der ihn zwanzig Jahre lang gefangen halten wird - aber Larry hatte sowieso schon immer das Gefühl, dass das eigentliche Leben anderswo abläuft. Sympathisch, aber etwas unbeholfen, stolpert er von der Ehe mit der kessen Dorrie in die zweite mit der schönen Feministin Beth. Als er am Ende bei Charlotte landet, ist er fast fünfzig und hat sich selbst durch sein eigenes Labyrinth gekämpft ... »Ein großer Gesellschafts- und Entwicklungsroman« Hans Josef Ortheil in der FAZ
