New Releases by Carol Shields

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The San Diego Tribune called The Stone Diaries a "universal study of what makes women tick." With Larry''s Party Carol Shields has done the same for men. Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator''s perception, irony, and tenderness. Larry''s Party gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997, that seamlessly flash backward and forward. We follow this young floral designer through two marriages and divorces, and his interactions with his parents, friends, and a son. Throughout, we witness his deepening passion for garden mazes--so like life, with their teasing treachery and promise of reward. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties, and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search for self. Larry''s odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy, and faultless wisdom.

Telle est l''existence ordinaire que nous content ces mémoires de Daisy Goodwill. Le défi du roman est de la rendre aussi passionnante que les sagas les plus riches en péripéties, de nous montrer que n''importe quelle existence, pour peu qu''on sache la regarder, recèle des trésors et reflète son siècle. Et quel siècle ! Œuvre d''une romancière canadienne saluée par la critique internationale comme l''égale d''une Alison Lurie ou d''une Joyce Carol Oates, La Mémoire des Pierres a été couronné, outre-Atlantique, par le prix Pulitzer. En France, le magazine Lire l''a élu meilleur livre de l''année 1995.

The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life''s setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly draws us into the lives of a broad range of sharply observed characters, from the brilliant young violinist smothered by an overprotective family, to the elderly widow mowing her lawn while a long, passionate life buzzes around in her memory. Blending wit and compassion, Shields illuminates moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances, declarations of love and revelations that transform their lives. Sharp, skeptical and sympathetic, this collection presents Shields at her inimitable best in twenty-one miracles of the storyteller''s art.

Die Biographie einer Frau, die im reifen Alter eine ganz neue Art von Erfüllung und Freiheit in ihrer beruflichen Arbeit zunächst findet und dann wieder verliert.

A novel about a marriage from the viewpoints of both the husband and the wife at a time when they are both undergoing changes.

Na verschillende mislukte relaties vraagt een 35-jarige vrouw in Winnipeg zich af of een langdurige wederzijdse liefde wel mogelijk is.

In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General''s Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain''s prestigious Booker Prize. Carleton University Press is pleased to release a newly designed edition of her poetry book, Coming to Canada, first published by CUP in 1992. This collection of nearly 60 poems includes the key "Coming to Canada" sequence, and is supplemented with selections from two previous volumes, Others (1972) and Intersect (1974). Among the finest writers in the world, Carol Shields has won a large and loyal audience as a witty, compassionate and insightful novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. She is the author of 15 books. Arriving in Canada from the United States in 1957, Shields is a long-time resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she is Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

An critical examination of the work of the Canadian writer Susanna Moodie including analysis of Life in the Clearings, Roughing It in the Bush, Waiting for Dead Men''s Shoes, and Matrimonial Speculations.