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Author:	Carol Shields	Format:	Hardcover
Publisher:	Fourth Estate	ISBN-10:	0060762039
ISBN-13:	9780060762032	Subject:	--
Publication Year:	2005	Topic:	--
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Carol Shields wrote 45 published stories in her too-short life (1935-2003), and all of them are collected here, along with "Segue," a chapter from the novel she left unfinished at her death. Stories come from the volumes VARIOUS MIRACLES (1985), the orange fish ( 1989), and DRESSING UP FOR THE CARNIVAL (2000).
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Length:	593 pages
Height:	10.0 in.
Width:	6.8 in.
Thickness:	1.8 in.
Weight:	36.0 oz.

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For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels. With her exquisite eye for detail and her eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences, she illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives. Playful, charming, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, this collection of stories will delight and enchant readers the world over.
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"The collection offers a timely reminder of the complexity, subtlety and sheer intelligence of [Shields's] humane vision; such moments are hard-won, reflecting the author's feminist aim to redeem life, light and the unrecorded voice from darkness and death....The stories are not flawless; there are moments of overstated symbolism, whimsy and overdetermined closure. Yet these are imperfections born of the author's formidably ambitious, experimental and questing nature--even a Shields story that doesn't quite come off is rewarding to read." Times Literary Supplement - Samantha Matthews (07/23/2004) "[Shields's] posthumous gathering of work in the short story form is impressive in volume, thematic and technical range, and sheer literary artistry....'Segue'...is a magnificently controlled yet deeply emotional and sensitive tale of a late middle-aged woman coping with aging....A beautiful prose style supports an obvious authorial wisdom about human nature." Booklist - Brad Hooper (12/15/2004) "The cumulative effect of these 56 stories is to conjure up a very writerly writer honing her technical and theoretical skills and paying little attention to conventions of plot and character. There's not much traditional suspense here; in fact, a surprising number of Shields's stories are fancifully essayistic treatments of items as disparate as keys and dolls....Taken together, Shields's stories risk seeming like curiously weightless exercises--lightly parodic postmodern turns. Yet this eclectic bundle of fragments also serves to highlight her novelistic gift and heft." New York Times Book Review - Ann Hulbert (02/06/2005)

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Collected Stories

Carol Shields

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Binding:	Hardcover
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0060762039
Publication Date:	2005-02-01
Publisher:	Fourth Estate

Pages:	624
Height:	2.0000 inches
Width:	6.1000 inches
Weight:	2.2000 pounds

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