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Carol Shields

    2 juin 1935 – 16 juillet 2003

    Carol Ann Shields était une auteure canadienne d'origine américaine qui explorait les complexités de la vie quotidienne avec une profonde perspicacité. Son œuvre plonge souvent dans la vie intérieure de ses personnages, examinant leurs relations, leurs souvenirs et les drames silencieux qui façonnent leur existence. Shields possédait une capacité remarquable à rendre l'ordinaire extraordinaire, utilisant un langage précis et évocateur pour dévoiler les complexités cachées au sein de récits apparemment simples. Son exploration de thèmes tels que l'identité, la famille et le passage du temps a profondément résonné auprès des lecteurs, l'établissant comme une voix significative de la littérature contemporaine.

    Carol Shields
    Larry's Party
    Mister Sandman
    The Stone Diaries
    Collected Stories
    Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
    Jane Austen
    • The Canadian Shields

      Stories and Essays

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Fifty short writings by Carol Shields are compiled in this collection, featuring over two dozen previously unpublished stories and essays. These pieces provide unique insights into her creative journey, enriching the understanding of her literary contributions. Scholars and fans alike will find value in this exploration of Shields's writing life, as it showcases her diverse talent and the evolution of her work.

      The Canadian Shields2024
    • A celebration of love in its many guises, The Republic of Love recounts the heartfelt tale of two of life's unlucky lovers: Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man; and, right across the street, Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who s been through three marriages and divorces in his search for true happiness.

      The Republic Of Love2021
      3,6
    • Una vera storia d’amore sullo sfondo della città canadese di Winnipeg. Due protagonisti insoliti e complessi come ciascuno di noi: Fay, trentacinquenne studiosa di tradizioni popolari con la passione per le sirene, all’apparenza incapace di avere una relazione stabile; Tom, famoso conduttore di un programma radiofonico, 40 anni e già tre matrimoni falliti alle spalle. Solo Carol Shields poteva descrivere con ironia e delicatezza quest’uomo e questa donna che si innamorano follemente, spingendosi anche in territori più pericolosi, dove entrano in gioco la singolarità del desiderio, la forza e la fragilità dei legami affettivi, la libertà di scelta degli amanti alle prese con il loro amore, con la famiglia e la società. Il risultato è un romanzo emozionante e pieno di fascino.

      Collana Amazzoni: L'amore è una repubblica2011
    • Collected Stories

      • 593pages
      • 21 heures de lecture

      For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume. volumes: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival. Some of the stories in these individual collections have never before been published in the UK, and we add to these wonderful shorter fictions a chapter from Carol Shields' last, unfinished, novel Segue. that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.

      Collected Stories2004
      4,1
    • Tenzij / druk 1

      • 281pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Voor Reta Winters is het leven als een rimpelloze vijver. Haar huwelijk is goed, ze woont in een heerlijk huis, ze heeft drie fantastische dochters en behalve als vertaalster begint ze ook als schrijfster succesvol te worden. Het geluk kan niet op, tot haar oudste dochter Norah stopt met haar studie. Ze bedelt op straat in Toronto met om haar nek een bord waar GOEDHEID op staat. Wat is er gebeurd? Waar ging het mis?

      Tenzij / druk 12003
    • Unless

      • 213pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      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 final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors.

      Unless2002
      3,6
    • Par une écrivaine canadienne de renom, une biographie concise de son illustre consoeur du début du 19e siècle que le cinéma, dans les années 1990, a remise à l'honneur. Un portrait intime, attentif au travail de création, d'une femme qui a pour l'essentiel mené une paisible vie familiale assez proche de celle décrite dans ses oeuvres. [SDM].

      Jane Austen2001
      3,7
    • This is a new collection of short stories, which brings together the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to novels such as The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party.

      Dressing up for the carnival2001
      3,6
    • A Celibate Season

      • 231pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. A CELIBATE SEASON is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, (Jock and Chas) and their self-imposed separation of ten months when Jock accepts a job in a city more than three thousand miles away from her family. As breadwinner and suddenly single again Jock is confronted with local politics, loneliness and advances from the opposite sex. Meanwhile back at home, Chas, an unemployed architect, is now a single parent who has to reacquaint himself with his teenage children, Mia and Greg, learn to run a household and shift his career priorities. Throw in an attractive young housekeeper, a mother-in-law who enjoys her wine, a touch of teenage angst, some unexpected home renovations and a disastrous Christmas dinner and you have modern family life.

      A Celibate Season2000