The Orange Fish: Stories
Winner of the Marian Engel Award: Passion, longing, regret, and transformation infuse these twelve tales by one of our most shrewd and skillful storytellers (Chicago Tribune)Milk Bread Beer Ice is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old Hazel is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In Today Is the Day, the village women gather together for their annual ritual of planting blisterlilies. And Family Secrets travels to DeKalb, Illinois, and the First World War, as the narrator searches for a missing year in her mother's life . . . and unear…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4804-5985-4
- EAN: 9781480459854
- Produktnummer: 15389127
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.7 cm 229 g
- Gewicht: 229
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Carol Shields (1935-2003) was born in Oak Park, Illinois. She studied at Hanover College, the University of Exeter in England, and the University of Ottawa. In 1957, she married Donald Shields and moved to Canada permanently. She taught at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia, and the University of Manitoba, and served as chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She wrote ten novels and three short story collections, in addition to poetry, plays, criticism, and a biography of Jane Austen. Her novel The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize, the Governor General's Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award; it was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Shields was further recognized with a Canada Council Major Award, two Canadian National Magazine Awards, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and countless other prizes and honors.
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