Carol shields

 Author(s): Carol Shields  Title: Unless  ISBN: 0 00 713929 2  Publisher: Fourth Estate  This Edition: Open market edition  Year of Publication:  2002  Place Of Publication: Great Britain  First Published: 2002  Binding: paperback  Number of pages:213  Weight: 339g  Condition: Excellent  Please see pictures below, as these form part of the description.    

  This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later.  Her ordinary life is made extraordinary in the telling. "I can think of few novels containing so much that is resonant and unforgettable, or that invite the reader to participate so fully and rewardingly.  The Stone Diaries is a triumphant and important book and deserves a wide audience"  Sunday Telegraph. Soft cover, good condition.  361 pages, all intact.

The dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer prize, and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange prize. 'Breathtaking...a masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. Unless is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.