Collected Stories - Couverture souple

Shields, Carol

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Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0007192061 ISBN 13 : 9780007192069

Editeur : HarperPerennial, 2005

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For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories - some previously unpublished - are gathered together in one volume.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 Munro In the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields' original short-story volumes, Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival, as well as many stories not previously published in the UK, including 'Segue', her last work. In these stories the author combines the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.

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Revue de presse :

“A magisterial compilation... Shields has left us with an intricate literary map of human relationships.” (Washington Post Book World)

“Surprising, daring, and varied...Shields’ Collected Stories makes you feel more keenly the premature loss of her tremendous talent.” (Rocky Mountain News)

“A revelation and a delight.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“A joyride...One delightful turn after another.” (Boston Globe)

“Sublime...Original...Superb...These surprising, effervescent stories can only help to ensure the power of [Shields’] legacy.” (Miami Herald)

“Marvelous...This big, beautiful collection should win Shields the devoted readership she deserves.” (O magazine)

“Genius...[Shields] is one of our strongest voices in literature.” (Charlotte Observer)

“Transcendent...Shields’s stories are made of the fresh air and sunshine of comfortable daily life.” (new york sun)

“Shields writes about whimsy, happenstance and serendipity, tragedies that really aren’t, and clean, cutting prose about things that really hurt...Amazing.” (Denver Post)

“Surprising, daring, and varied...Shields’ Collected Stories makes you feel more keenly the premature loss of her tremendous talent. (Rocky Mountain News)

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

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 continue to enchant for years to come.

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