Carol Shields
Paperback | Pages: 320 pages Rating: 3.63 | 12520 Users | 1053 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Unless |
| ISBN: | 0007154615 (ISBN13: 9780007154616) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.carol-shields.com/unless.html |
| Setting: | Canada |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2002), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2002), Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (2003) |
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Compulsively readable, this main character comes from a very long, proud lineage of other literary protagonists who get totally fucked over by their offspring. Although it doesn't come close to the pathos & articulation thereof of, say, Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin", nor the titan-in-decay tableau which is Philip Roth's "American Pastoral"--"Unless" is way more playful, more accessible. It is the same old story, though. &, unless anything happens to me, I will definitely get my hands on every single thing Carol Shields has written or will write!!Define Of Books Unless
| Title | : | Unless |
| Author | : | Carol Shields |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Fourth Estate paperback edition (US) |
| Pages | : | Pages: 320 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Fourth Estate (first published 2002) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada |
Rating Of Books Unless
Ratings: 3.63 From 12520 Users | 1053 ReviewsJudge Of Books Unless
UPDATE May 2016: Just found out this is going to be a movie, starring Catherine Keener as Reta! It will probably play the Toronto Film Festival in the fall. Looking forward to it!***In Carol Shieldss Unless, Reta Winters, a happy, middle-aged novelist and translator, a wife and mother of three children, discovers that her 19-year-old daughter has dropped out of university and is panhandling on the streets of Toronto holding a sign that reads Goodness. That one-sentence synopsis, while accurate,This book is not about big things...it is about a woman in her fourties who is writing novels and leads a rather ordinary life. While we read about her world (her husband, her three daughters - one of them does something completely unexpected -, her books, her editor,...) we get to know her thinking processes, and learn how her doubts and certainities change.. She offers us an insight on her opinions on emanicpation of women in the letters she writes (but doesnt send) to several instances. I
I was so bored reading this book. It started out boring in the first chapter when she listed all of her works and explained her translations. I'm not one of those type of readers where a book has to immediately grip you in the beginning otherwise you quit. So I kept on reading hoping it would get better... but it didn't. The book focuses on how Reta deals with her daugher, Norah's, strange decision to live in a shelter and to beg on the streets. Reta starts to believe the reason why Norah became
A woman writer working on her second novel. Then suddenly, with no particular reason, her eldest daughter leaves college and her boyfriend and begs in the street of Toronto with a placard sign on her neck that reads: "GOODNESS". The daughter refuses to speak to the mother or anybody. Just like that. Yes, the plot is just like that but the way Carol Shields (1935-2003) writes is different from what I've read so far. It is fluid, supple and multi-layered or multi-pronged. I would imagine that if
You wouldn't expect it from her, but Carol Shields has written a naughty book. Put your yellow highlighter down: There's no sex, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Stone Diaries" is doing something indecorous here -- ribbing our notions of grief, even snickering at what inspires us.Her latest novel, a mischievous monologue called "Unless," begins with lamentations. Reta Winters once had it all: a loving partner who's a successful doctor, three smart daughters, a beautiful house
At first sight Unless is a simple story, somewhat dated in its telling, making an (by the standards of 2017) unfashionable commentary on the joys of homemaking (by women).The narrative is rather deeper than that, though, and cuts to the core of family hurt and upheaval if a loved child goes off the rails. Carol Shields also reflects deeply and frequently on the difficulties, for women particularly, in trying to make a real and lasting difference in their lives."My nineteen year old doomed to
Unless is really quite good. And I really mean quite good, not brilliant, not bad, but quite good. It's quiet and peaceful and pretty and enjoyable without being mind-blowing. It is full of beautiful moments, and the language is really nice. It is subtle. In fact, it's so subtle that it's difficult to work out why it works as well as it does. Maybe I'll just let the text do the talking."I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that
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