age ~79
from Reno, NV
With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illuminates the miracles that grace our lives; it will ...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
632
Publisher
Harper Perennial
ISBN #
0060762047
EAN Code
9780060762049
ISBN #
21
Shields' first novel tells the story of Judith Gill, a woman whose world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing the minutiae of past lives. But in one lovingly documented year of life, Judith is revealed to herself: a person with desires, passion...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
279
Publisher
G K Hall & Co
ISBN #
0783818300
EAN Code
9780783818306
ISBN #
19
Two novels in one, Happenstance tells the story of a marriage from the individual perspectives of a husband and wife at a turning point in their relationshipWhen we meet Brenda Bowman in “The Wife’s Story,” the forty-year-old mother of two is preparing to fly to Philadelphia to attend a craft conven...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
522
Publisher
Open Road Media
ISBN #
1480459828
EAN Code
9781480459823
ISBN #
17
The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry's Party Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony, and tenderness. Larry's Party gives us, as it...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
339
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140266771
EAN Code
9780140266771
ISBN #
15
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Stone Diaries gives us a love story for the ages: the tale of two polar opposites on a rocky road to romanceHe’s a thrice-divorced late-night talk-show host. She’s an unmarried folklorist obsessed with mermaids. He lives for the present. She lives in the past...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
416
Publisher
Open Road Media
ISBN #
1480459860
EAN Code
9781480459861
ISBN #
12
Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness." The fin...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Harper Perennial
ISBN #
0060874406
EAN Code
9780060874407
ISBN #
5
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her earl...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0143035169
EAN Code
9780143035169
ISBN #
4
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 ficti...
Author
Carol Shields
Binding
Paperback
Pages
336
Publisher
Fourth Estate Ltd
ISBN #
0007137699
EAN Code
9780007137695
ISBN #
2
Carol Ann Shields, CC OM FRSC (ne Warner; June 2, 1935 July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel...
ISBN #
1
Author
Carol L. Shields
ISBN #
0781719186
Author
Carol L. Shields
ISBN #
0781775787
Author
Carol L. Shields
ISBN #
0781775817