Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields

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Author:	Carol Shields	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Penguin Group USA	ISBN-10:	0141001917
Edition Description:	Reissue	ISBN-13:	9780141001913
Subject:	--	Publication Year:	2001
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This volume of Carol Shields' short stories includes "Absence," in which a writer must function even though a crucial typewriter key is missing, and "The Scarf," about another writer who goes shopping for a particularly beautiful scarf for her daughter.
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Length:	210 pages
Height:	7.8 in.
Width:	5.3 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	6.4 oz.

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The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories by the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party.Reprint.
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"Shields's eye for the sensuously vivid detail for the telling moment when a whole life seems transformed, enlivens story after story....The finest of these stories are as coolly pointed as fables, but Shields's amused intelligence is complicated by the poignancy with which she can evoke turning points in people's lives." Walters "[A] marvelous collection....Shields loves exploring the workings of narrative, the character of language...." Macaulay "There is something both abundant and cluttered about...DRESSING UP FOR CARNIVAL. These 22 stories are...a playful mix, brimming with intelligence and wit." Orozco "[A]n intelligent, provocative, and entertaining collection of variegated prose pieces, both conventional and unconventional. Of the twenty-two stories a few are admittedly slight and overly whimsical; several of the more promising fade disappointingly, as if the author had lost interest; but the majority are deftly, even sunnily written, and bristling with ideas, reminding us that fiction need not be emotionally devastating or 'profound' to be worthwhile." Oates "Much of the time, DRESSING UP FOR THE CARNIVAL is a raucous celebration of the hidden qualities lurking within utterly ordinary items....The book has its clunkers. A few of the shortest stories read like pale creative-writing exercises....But these weaker entries were probably included for variety's sake, and variety of setting, tone, sensibility and subject is indeed one of the book's obvious qualities." McCullough

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Dressing Up for the Carnival

Carol Shields

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Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0141001917
Publication Date:	2001-05-01
Publisher:	Penguin (Non-Classics)

Pages:	224
Height:	0.6000 inches
Width:	5.0000 inches
Weight:	0.3500 pounds

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