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Carol Shields
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Paperback. Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.
Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet. While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. As their mother’s wedding ... Read more
Originally published as two companion novels: Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden.
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007171675
SKU
V9780007171675
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Carol Shields
Carol Shields’s novels include Larry’s Party (1997), winner of the 1998 Orange Prize, and The Stone Diaries (1993), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She reached this shortlist for the second time in 2002 with Unless.
Reviews for Duet
‘Carol Shields sings with the charm of a true siren.’ Guardian ‘Carol Shield’s prose is addictive. Her writing is both smoothly intelligent and sensually immediate, conflating concrete domestic realities with the elemental and miraculous.’ Sunday Telegraph ... Read more