Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award: Carol Shields’s award-winning fourth novel is a literary detective story exploring the surprising afterlife of a murdered poet. Who is Mary Swann? In this novel of a writer’s revenge, an uneducated farmer’s wife delivers a paper bag filled with scraps of her poems to the publisher of a small press. Hours later, she’s dead, murdered by her husband. Fifteen years on, her book of 125 poems - Mary Swann’s sole claim to fame - is discovered by an American academic. And a literary odyssey begins. Four narrators - Sarah Maloney, a feminist writer; Frederic Cruzzi, an editor; Morton Jimroy, a biographer; and Rose Hindmarch, Mary’s only friend - all have a stake in the deceased poet’s work. Their chorus of voices opens a fascinating window on what constitutes genius. As the four descend into a quagmire of ego, jealousy, and backstabbing, Mary Swann comes back to life - in the minds and hearts of those who love and hate her most. Full of mischief, Swann is a novel about life, death, and the ideas that live on after us.

Swann

CAROL SHIELDS

Literature & Fiction

Flamingo

Unless

Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of 'The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and 'Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize. 'Breathtaking!a masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'Goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. 'Unless' is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.

Humor & Satire

Harpercollins Pb

Author of Larry's Party" and the Pulitzer Prize winner, "The Stone Diaries."Unless is indeed a novel in praise of "the pleasures of ordinary existence." We are treated to more than one "atomic particle of time," "backlit with fibre-optic gold." This is Norman Rockwell meets the Dalai Lama. Unless raises "the quotidian," to its rightful place, where the everyday is a constant source of beauty and enlightenment. Finally, Shields is, as they say, at the top of her form, which is quite an elevation. Unless is a very special novel, one definitely not to be missed.

UNLESS.

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

Paperback. Pub Date :2003-08-04 Pages: 416 Language: English Publisher: Fourth Estate Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender. funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband. her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject.Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet.While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present . Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about.As their mother's wedding approaches. both sisters must come to terms with the paths they have chosen.Originally published as two companion novels: Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden.

Duet

HarperCollins, Publishers

The Stone Diaries[(penguin Classics Deluxe Edition]] [STONE DIARIES ANNIV/E 15/E] [Paperback]

The Stone Diaries

Harper-perennial

A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries", runner-up for the Booker Prize in 1993. The stories are all concerned with moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances: wild coincidences, declarations of love, and startling revelations.

Various Miracles

Xcarol Shields X3 Slipcase Bk

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Literary

Fourth Estate Ltd.

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Unless

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Unless

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