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  • The Stone Diaries

    by Carol Shields ...
    Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeBorn in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unless

    by Carol Shields ...
    “Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her ... Read more

    Was $11.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Happenstance

    by Carol Shields ...
    These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Love

    by Carol Shields ...
    With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Larry's Party

    by Carol Shields ...
    The Stone Diaries marked a new phase in a literary career already ablaze with achievement. As well as the many international awards it received, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General's Award, the book also met with universal critical acclaim and topped bestseller lists around the world. "Carol Shields," raved Maclean's, "has crafted a small ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Orange Fish

    by Carol Shields ...
    A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award.Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us into worlds that are both new and yet unnervingly familiar. A smile of recognition and a shock of surprise await readers of these finely crafted ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Stone Diaries

    by Carol Shields ...
    Narrated by Deborah Drakeford ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 55 min

    Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeBorn in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and ... Read more

    $21.00 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Collected Stories of Carol Shields

    by Carol Shields ...
    Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless*,* The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections – Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival – in one volume, along with the previously unpublished story, “Segue,” her last.With an eye ... ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $7.99 CAD

  • Startle and Illuminate

    Carol Shields on Writing

    by Carol Shields ...
    Shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision and wit, Startle and Illuminate is a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that is destined to become as valued and essential as Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.An essential work from one of Canada's finest ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Various Miracles

    by Carol Shields ...
    The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life's setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an overprotective family, to the elderly widow mowing her lawn while a long, ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Love

    by Carol Shields ...
    With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, we are introduced to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There is Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there’s Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Box Garden

    by Carol Shields ...
    Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, bus drivers... men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who feel sorry for her." Her ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD