Unless
by:
Carol Shields (author)
Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness."The...
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Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness."The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060874407 (0060874406)
Publish date: January 3rd 2006
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy, among them, her three almost grown daughters, her twenty-six year relationship with their father, her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman, and the modest success she has had with her own novel. Then one ...
Reta Winters seems to have it all, a successful career as an author, a comfortable home, a loving relationship with her husband/not-husband and three daughters, and good friendship. However, when her oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of college and is found panhandling on a Toronto street corner wea...
I am so sorry that the world lost Carol Shields. What an amazing writer. I will, one day, write a review of this book but every time I begin I give up because I cannot capture it correctly. Odd, because it is one of my favorite books.
I found this to be a fairly honest look at a woman's psyche. While it was not stream of consciousness, it could have been. The way that thinking of her daughter's childhood brings her back to her childhood. By the way, I relate greatly to her childhood. The girl that was written could have been ...
a really nice and subtly powerful tale of coming of age into feminism that reminds us of how painful the realization is that as women, our voices are never as loudly heard as male voices. that, as women, we are simply not afforded the same credit as our male counterparts.
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