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Collected stories / Carol Shields

By:

Shields, Carol

Publication details: New York : Fourth Estate , 2005.Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 593 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780060762032

Subject(s):

Canada -- --Social life and customs -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Short stories

DDC classification:

FIC SHI

LOC classification:

PR9199.3.S514 A6 2005

Summary: For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels. With her exquisite eye for detail and her eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences, she illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives. Playful, charming, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, this collection of stories will delight and enchant readers the world over.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC SHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		042276

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"First published by Random House Canada in 2004"--T.p. verso.

For the first time, all of Carol Shields's remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. This definitive anthology contains the previously unpublished story "Segue," her last work. In these stories Carol Shields combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels. With her exquisite eye for detail and her eagerness to explore the most fundamental of relationships and the wildest of coincidences, she illuminates the absurdities and miracles that grace all of our lives. Playful, charming, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, this collection of stories will delight and enchant readers the world over.

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