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The Worlds of Carol Shields

The Worlds of Carol Shields

Staines, David

Paperback

Series: Reappraisals: Canadian Writers

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0776622064
ISBN13: 9780776622064
Publisher: Univ Of Ottawa Pr
Published: Dec 2 2014
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields' extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.

Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced --novel, radio drama, play, book of stories. So I had a good sense of the span of her work and also her evolution as a stylist. But the key reason I wanted to make a book focusing on her life and work is that we were friends. --Eleanor Wachtel.

This book strikes the right balance between intimate accounts and literary analysis. It opens with reminiscences by close friend Eleanor Wachtel, which are followed by a study of Shields' poetry by her daughter and grandson, then by various aspects of her fiction, including a detailed examination of her plays. It closes with reminiscences by four close friends: Jane Urquhart, Joan Clark, Wayson Choy and Martin Levin. The 23 contributors offer new insights, new theories, and new perspectives about Shields' illuminating career. Only one piece--her obituary written by Margaret Atwood--has been previously published.

Published in English.

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