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51 produkter
Stone Diaries
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
E-bok, 2008
144 kr
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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 …
Dressing Up for the Carnival
E-bok, 2001
112 kr
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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 …
Mary Swann
E-bok, 2020
198 kr
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Mary 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 brutally murders her. Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost …
Unless
Häftad, 2003
152 kr
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Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.‘Breathtaking…a masterpiece.’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily MailReta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. …
Duet
Häftad, 2003
179 kr
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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 …
Collected Stories
Häftad, 2005
271 kr
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For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume.‘Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure’ Alice MunroIn the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields’ original short-story …
Collected Stories
E-bok, 2010
145 kr
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For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume.`Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure’ Alice MunroIn the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields’ original short-story …
Celibate Season
Av Carol Shields, Blanche Howard
E-bok, 2010
96 kr
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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, …
Unless
E-bok, 2010
88 kr
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Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of `The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and `Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.`Breathtaking…a masterpiece.’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily MailReta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. …
Duet
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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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 …
Larry’s Party
E-bok, 2011
106 kr
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The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s Maze.Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their honeymoon in England. At Hampton Court Larry discovers a new passion. Perhaps his ever-growing obsession …
Unless
Ljudbok, 2006
312 kr
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For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels ''for summertime.'' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit …
Collected Stories
E-bok, 2013
101 kr
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With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, and acutely observed, this essential collection illuminates the miracles that grace our lives; it will …
Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Av Carol Shields, Nora Foster Stovel
Inbunden, 2021
1677 kr
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Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously …
Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Av Carol Shields, Nora Foster Stovel
Häftad, 2021
441 kr
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Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously …
Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Av Carol Shields, Nora Foster Stovel
E-bok, 2021
345 kr
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Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries . But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career. The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously …
Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Av Carol Shields, Nora Foster Stovel
E-bok, 2021
345 kr
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Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries . But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career. The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously …
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
E-bok, 2010
292 kr
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With a Foreword by the Author “Before becoming a playwright I was a novelist, and one who was often impatient with the requisite description of weather or scenery or even with the business of moving people from room to room. I was more interested in the sound of people talking to each other, …
Dropped Threads 2
More of What We Aren''t Told
Av Marjorie Anderson, Carol Shields
E-bok, 2010
247 kr
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The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren''t Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women''s network” still wasn''t able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women …
Various Miracles
E-bok, 2010
200 kr
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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 …
Swann
E-bok, 2011
266 kr
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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 …
Scribners Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998
Av Natalie Danford, Carol Shields m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
284 kr
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From Simon & Schuster, Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998 showcases the most exciting and innovative invoice in North American fiction from 1998.Gathered from 100 different workshops, these remarkably diverse stories possess the quality of works by more established authors, while …
Stories for Lovers
Av Margaret Atwood, Virginia Woolf m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
138 kr
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Fall head over heels with this collection of unconventionaland heartfelt romances that will leave you longing for more. From icons offeminist literature to forgotten Chinese modernists, these women writers chartevolutions of love across lifetimes, from the first flush of youth to growingold …
Jane Austen
A Life
E-bok, 2005
164 kr
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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 …
Larry's Party
E-bok, 1998
234 kr
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The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry''s Party Carol Shields has done 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, …
