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008			180125t19951976gbr 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781857020298
050	0	0	_aPR9199.3.S514 _bS43 1996
082	1		_aFIC SHI _2
100	1		_aShields, Carol
245	1	0	_aSmall ceremonies _c/ Carol Shields
260			_aLondon _b: Fourth Estate _c, 1995, c1976
300			_a179 p. _c; 20 cm.
500			_aSmall Ceremonies is a companion novel to The Box Garden.
520			_aJudith Gill's world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing the minutiae of past lives. As a mother, she is perplexed by her children's developing lives. As a wife, she struggles to sympathize with and support a man who sometimes acts like a stranger. Her own life recedes, overshadowed by the urge to observe and understand the people she encounters. Yet, in this lovingly documented year of a woman's life, Judith is revealed to herself; a person with desires, passions, and faults; with instincts that are sometimes right and often wrong. And it is through the very observations she can't help but make that Judith finds her place in the world: as translator and celebrant of life's small - and very important - ceremonies.
546			_aEnglish.
650		4	_aWomen biographers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aCollege teachers' spouses _v--Fiction
651		4	_aOntario _x-Fiction
655			_aDomestic fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c243896 _d243896