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Carol Shields is the author of The Canadian Shields (2024), The Republic of Love (2022), The Orange Fish (2022), Small Ceremonies (2022), Le poisson orange (2016).

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The Canadian Shields

release date: Sep 09, 2024
The Canadian Shields
Newly discovered work by one of Canada’s favourite writers The Canadian Shields brings together fifty short writings by Carol Shields (1935–2003), including more than two dozen previously unpublished short stories and essays and two dozen essays previously published but never before collected. Invaluable to scholars and admirers of Shields’s work, the writings discovered in the National Library Archives by Nora Foster Stovel and presented to the public here for the first time reflect Shields’s interest in the relationships between reality and fiction, mothers and daughters, and gender and genre. They also reveal her love of Canada, especially Winnipeg, her home for twenty years. Originally written for women’s magazines, travel journals, convocation addresses, and even graduate school term papers, Shields’s imaginative essays explore ideas about home, Canadian literature, contemporary women’s writing, and the future of fiction. Whether autobiographical, cultural, or feminist in focus, these works vividly illuminate the multiple chapters of Shields’s writing life. Margaret Atwood and Lorna Crozier frame Shields’s texts with tributes to her work and impact. An introduction by Stovel situates Shields as a Canadian author and subversive feminist writer, demonstrating how American-born-and-raised Carol Anne Warner became “the Canadian Shields”—a quintessential and beloved Canadian writer and the only author to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Gold Medal for Fiction.

The Republic of Love

release date: Mar 15, 2022
The Republic of Love
With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There''s Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there''s Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times. Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations? Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them in this touching and ironic book.

The Orange Fish

release date: Mar 15, 2022
The Orange Fish
A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General''s Award. Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us into worlds that are both new and yet unnervingly familiar. A smile of recognition and a shock of surprise await readers of these finely crafted stories. From the magical orange fish itself--enigmatic and without age--to holiday reunions; from the passions and pains of lovers and friends to the moving uncertainty of a Parisian vacation, this exquisite collection is bound to delight and enchant Carol Shields''s fans everywhere.

Small Ceremonies

release date: Mar 15, 2022
Small Ceremonies
The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General''s Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When she joins her academic husband on sabbatical in Birmingham, she finds on the shelves of their rented flat the notes of a failed novelist. With considerable guilt, Judith decides to plagiarize one of the ideas and brings it home to Canada to work on. Frustrated by the creative process but determined to be more imaginative, Judith attends writing classes and later discovers that her tutor, suffering from writer''s block, has ripped off ''her'' idea. Once again, Shields focuses her sharp gaze on the small ceremonies of life in this novel of rare intelligence and wit.

Le poisson orange

release date: Nov 09, 2016
Le poisson orange
Un sourire de reconnaissance attendrie apparaîtra sur les lèvres du lecteur. Pourtant, la surprise l’attend au détour. Entre le poisson rouge magique – énigmatique et sans âge – aux réunions de famille, la passion et la souffrance d’amants et d’amis, et l’incertitude de vacances à Paris, cet exquis recueil de nouvelles plaira et enchantera à coup sûr. Ce recueil avait reçu le prix Marian Engel (1990). Publié en français.

Happenstance

release date: Apr 21, 2016
Happenstance
Happenstance is a unique novel, its events taking place in one week, telling two stories. Both recount the same events, from a wife''s perspective and from her husband''s. Both stories are written in a third-person stream-of-consciousness style, but they differ in style to highlight the difference between the male and female voice. Intimate, insightful and never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and of those differences between the sexes that brings life - and a sense of isolation - into the most loving relationships.

Le Carnaval du quotidien

release date: Feb 12, 2014
Le Carnaval du quotidien
Le Carnaval du quotidien, version française de Dressing up for the Carnival, est le troisième et dernier recueil de nouvelles de Carol Shields. Les nouvelles de Shields dévoilent le côté ludique et l’imagination féconde de cette grande dame de la littérature canadienne. Une grève de météorologistes provoque une suspension totale du climat (Acclimatement). Le gouvernement instaure une taxe sur les fenêtres qui incite la population à se replier dans la noirceur en recouvrant toutes les surfaces vitreuses des demeures (Fenêtres). Stop! aborde la réclusion d’une reine qui est allergique à tout, même à la marche du temps. Reportage porte sur la découverte d’un amphithéâtre romain au Manitoba qui transforme l’économie locale. On rencontre également Titus, un berger de l’Antiquité, qui invente la rêverie dans la nouvelle intitulée Invention. D’une nouvelle à l’autre, le lecteur est invité dans l’univers de Shields où la vie est synonyme de spectacle et le quotidien n’est ni banal ni ordinaire. Publié en français

Larry's Party

release date: Oct 05, 2011
Larry's Party
The Stone Diaries marked a new phase in a literary career already ablaze with achievement. As well as the many international awards it received, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General''s Award, the book also met with universal critical acclaim and topped bestseller lists around the world. "Carol Shields," raved Maclean''s, "has crafted a small miracle of a novel." "The Stone Diaries," said the New York Times Book Review, "reminds us again why literature matters." The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries "a universal study of what makes women tick." Now, in Larry''s Party, Carol Shields does 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 were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash backward and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the new millennium, adapting to society''s changing expectations of men, Shields'' elegant prose transforms the trivial into the momentous. We follow this young floral designer through two marriages and divorces, his interactions with parents, friends and a son. And throughout, we witness his deepening passion for garden mazes -- so like life, with their teasing treachery and promise of reward. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search for self. Larry''s odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy and faultless wisdom.

Swann

release date: Jan 21, 2011
Swann
Carol Shields''s award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann''s existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

Unless

release date: Oct 08, 2010
Unless
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta’s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta’s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.

The Collected Stories of Carol Shields

release date: Jul 23, 2010
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shields’s short story collections – Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival – in one volume, along with the previously unpublished story, “Segue,” her last. With an eye for the smallest of telling details – a woman applying her lipstick so “the shape of pale raspberry fits perfectly the face she knows by heart” – and a willingness to explore the most fundamental relationships and the wildest of coincidences, Shields illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all our lives. From a couple who experiences a world without weather, to the gentle humor of an elderly widow mowing her lawn while looking back on a life of passion, to a young woman abandoned by love and clinging to a “slender handrail of hope,” Shields’s enormous sympathy for her characters permeates her fiction. Playful, charming, acutely observed and generous of spirit, this collection of stories will delight and enchant Carol Shields fans everywhere. Excerpt from The Collected Stories of Carol Shields Let me say it: I am an aging woman of despairing good cheer — just look into the imaginary camera lens and watch me as I make the Sunday morning transaction over the bread, then the flowers, my straw tote from our recent holiday in Jamaica, my smile, my upturned sixty-seven-year-old voice, a voice so crying-out and clad with familiarity that, in fact, I can’t hear it anymore myself, thank God; my ears are blocked. Lately everything to do with my essence has become transparent, neutral: Good morning, Jane Sexton smiles to one and all (such a friendly, down-to-earth woman). “What a perfect fall day.” “What glorious blooms!” “Why Mr. Henning, this bread is still warm! Can this be true?”

The Stone Diaries

release date: Sep 30, 2008
The Stone Diaries
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields''s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy''s vividly described inner life--from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Jane Austen

release date: May 31, 2005
Jane Austen
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 early family life in Steventown to her later years in Bath, her broken engagement, and her intense relationship with her sister Cassandra. She reveals both the very private woman and the acclaimed author behind the enduring classics Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. With its fascinating insights into the writing process from an award–winning novelist, Carol Shields’s magnificent biography of Jane Austen is also a compelling meditation on how great fiction is created.

Une saison de célibat

release date: Jan 01, 2002
Une saison de célibat
Jocelyne et Charles entament une séparation forcée et réalisent qu'ils se sentent solidaires moralement de leur entourage quotidien. Un roman sur les difficultés que rencontrent les couples à assumer la durée et le bouleversement des rôles traditionnels.

Dressing Up for the Carnival

release date: May 01, 2001
Dressing Up for the Carnival
A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize) All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In ‘Weather’ a couple’s life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Metereorologists go on strike – what will they wear? What will they eat? In ‘Soup du Jour’ a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement and his mother’s soup-making. Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields’ second collection of short stories celebrates the extraordinary details that are found in ordinary, everyday lives.

Une soirée chez Larry

release date: Jan 11, 2000
Une soirée chez Larry
Lauréate du prix Pulitzer pour La Mémoire des pierres, la romancière canadienne Carol Shields entreprend ici le portrait d'un homme ordinaire : Larry Weller, né à Winnipeg en 1950. Paysagiste, deux fois divorcé, père d'un petit garçon, Larry, la quarantaine passée, cherche encore son destin. Un destin que semble symboliser ou résumer sa passion pour les labyrinthes de jardin, dédales trompeurs qui ressemblent à sa vie, et qui sont aussi son refuge. S'adaptant aux circonstances pour répondre à ce que la société et les autres attendent de lui, Larry a traversé la spontanéité des années 70, l'enchantement trompeur des années 80, les difficiles années 90. Une odyssée qui reflète, avec un humour jubilatoire et une lucidité impitoyable, la condition masculine à la fin du XXe siècle.

El Mundo de Larry

release date: Jan 01, 1999

La mémoire des pierres

release date: Jan 01, 1997
La mémoire des pierres
Telle est l'existence ordinaire que nous content ces mémoires de Daisy Goodwill. Le défi du roman est de la rendre aussi passionnante que les sagas les plus riches en péripéties, de nous montrer que n'importe quelle existence, pour peu qu'on sache la regarder, recèle des trésors et reflète son siècle. Et quel siècle ! Œuvre d'une romancière canadienne saluée par la critique internationale comme l'égale d'une Alison Lurie ou d'une Joyce Carol Oates, La Mémoire des Pierres a été couronné, outre-Atlantique, par le prix Pulitzer. En France, le magazine Lire l'a élu meilleur livre de l'année 1995.

Kjærlighetens republikk

release date: Jan 01, 1997

Het toeval, het verhaal van de man ; Het toeval, het verhaal van de vrouw

release date: Jan 01, 1997
Het toeval, het verhaal van de man ; Het toeval, het verhaal van de vrouw
Als een Amerikaanse vrouw voor het eerst man en kinderen een week alleen laat om een conferentie bij te wonen, is haar man genoodzaakt actief deel te nemen aan gezinsleven en vriendenkring.

Various Miracles

release date: Mar 26, 1996
Various Miracles
The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life''s setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an overprotective family, to the elderly widow mowing her lawn while a long, passionate life buzzes around in her memory. Blending wit and compassion, Shields illuminates moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances, declarations of love and revelations that transform their lives. Sharp, skeptical and sympathetic, this collection presents Shields at her inimitable best in twenty-one miracles of the storyteller''s art.

ストーン・ダイアリー

release date: Jan 01, 1996

Das Tagebuch der Daisy Goodwill

release date: Jan 01, 1995
Das Tagebuch der Daisy Goodwill
Die Biographie einer Frau, die im reifen Alter eine ganz neue Art von Erfüllung und Freiheit in ihrer beruflichen Arbeit zunächst findet und dann wieder verliert.

Happenstance: the Husband's Story

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Sie und er ; Er und sie

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Mary Swann

release date: Jan 01, 1993

La république de l'amour

release date: Jan 01, 1993

De republiek der liefde : roman

release date: Jan 01, 1993
De republiek der liefde : roman
Na verschillende mislukte relaties vraagt een 35-jarige vrouw in Winnipeg zich af of een langdurige wederzijdse liefde wel mogelijk is.

A Celibate Season

release date: Jan 01, 1991
A Celibate Season
This is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, and their self-imposed separation of 10 months when Jock accepts a job in a city more than a thousand miles away from her family.

The Box Garden

release date: Aug 27, 1990
The Box Garden
Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, bus drivers... men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who feel sorry for her." Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud.
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