Dressing Up for the Carnival
In Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields distills her characteristic wisdom, elegance, and insouciant humor in twenty-two luminous stories. A wealth of surprises and contrasts, this collection ranges from the lyricism of Weather, in which a couple's life is thrown into chaos when the National Association of Meteorologists goes on strike, to the swampy sexuality of Eros, in which a room in a Parisian hotel on the verge of ruin is the catalyst for passion, to the brave confidence of A Scarf-new for this collection-which chronicles the realities of a fledging author's book tour. Playful, graceful, acutely observed, and generous of spirit,…
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- ISBN: 978-0-14-100191-3
- EAN: 9780141001913
- Produktnummer: 9146215
- Verlag: Penguin Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 210 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.9 cm x D1.6 cm 172 g
- Gewicht: 172
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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Carol Shields (1935-2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short-story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, Swann, The Orange Fish, Various Miracles, The Box Garden, and Small Ceremonies (all available from Penguin).
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