Carol Shields Books

Fifty short writings by Carol Shields are compiled in this collection, featuring over two dozen previously unpublished stories and essays.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 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For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume.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.

An oblique look at the capriciousness of modern life, this is the story of the Canary family. Little Joan is exquisitely tiny, plays the piano like Mozart and lives in a closet. Her sister Marcy is a numphomaniac with a poodle fixation, while Sonia is enormous, earns a fortune clipping0

One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy s vividly described inner life from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death.

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.

Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'The Stone Diaries'. Larry's Party is about being a man in this part of the twentieth century, when so many supports have been removed, and covers the life of its protagonist, Larry, between the ages of 27 and 47, from 1977 to 1997, and illustrates how men have had to change; it looks at how you define masculinity in the post-feminist world. Two strands run through the book: work and goodness. The chapters are at once independent of each other and yet connected, with titles like: Larry's Friends, Larry's Look, Larry's Kid, Larry's Folks, Larry's Love, Larry's Penis, Larry's Speech, Men called Larry, Larry's Alternate, Larry's Party, Larry's Real Life Life, Larry So Far, Old Larry.

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.

Two stories from a marriage in crisis: thewife's story and the husband's story. The setting issuburbia, the time frame a week spent apart. She goes toa quilting convention where she has an affair, he stayshome to mind the kids and discuss manhood with a friendwho has been abandoned by his wife

Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time. 'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW

Leadership is one of the principal interests of the social sciences. Drawing on psychology, sociology, anthropology and business studies as well as philosophy and history, this four-volume collection focuses on democratic leadership in the political sphere. What makes a successful political leader? How much influence can an individual really have? Why are so few top political leaders women? David Bell roots this collection in the classic works of Machiavelli and Weber, before turning to the work of the American political scientists who were the first to study leadership in a systematic way in the 1960s, and coming right up-to-date with the work of Skowronek and others. Theories of leadership Machiavelli and political leadership Weber's view of political leadership Leadership character Ethics of leadership The entourage - the leader's team Political artifice in leadership The leadership effect.

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.

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.

Una vera storia d’amore sullo sfondo della città canadese di Winnipeg. Due protagonisti insoliti e complessi come ciascuno di noi: Fay, trentacinquenne studiosa di tradizioni popolari con la passione per le sirene, all’apparenza incapace di avere una relazione stabile; Tom, famoso conduttore di un programma radiofonico, 40 anni e già tre matrimoni falliti alle spalle. Solo Carol Shields poteva descrivere con ironia e delicatezza quest’uomo e questa donna che si innamorano follemente, spingendosi anche in territori più pericolosi, dove entrano in gioco la singolarità del desiderio, la forza e la fragilità dei legami affettivi, la libertà di scelta degli amanti alle prese con il loro amore, con la famiglia e la società. Il risultato è un romanzo emozionante e pieno di fascino.

Voor Reta Winters is het leven als een rimpelloze vijver. Haar huwelijk is goed, ze woont in een heerlijk huis, ze heeft drie fantastische dochters en behalve als vertaalster begint ze ook als schrijfster succesvol te worden. Het geluk kan niet op, tot haar oudste dochter Norah stopt met haar studie. Ze bedelt op straat in Toronto met om haar nek een bord waar GOEDHEID op staat. Wat is er gebeurd? Waar ging het mis?

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