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Key Information
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| Authors: |
Carol Shields |
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Literary Criticism |
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2002 The Man Booker Prize |
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Professional Reviews
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Times Literary Supplement: "The...narrative, working through ideas of goodness, giving and giving up, shows Shields at her tragicomic best....In some ways, UNLESS resembles Anne Tyler at her best. Thematically, however, the novel edges around territory touched on in Nick Hornby's investigation of domestic spirituality, HOW TO BE GOOD. But Shields's roots also lie in the nineteenth century." |
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Book Editions
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Format: Paperback, 320
Publisher: Perennial (January 01, 2006)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.65 lbs.
ISBN: 9780060874407 |
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Reta Winters is a successful novelist, Tom is a doctor, and they've been living together for over 20 years. Life has been good until Reta's daughter Norah leaves home and becomes a street person in Toronto. Carol Shields's novel--which she claims will be her last (she was suffering from terminal cancer when she wrote it)--is about not only family and its complexities, but the literary life and its intersection with what is real. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. |
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