Carol Shields
Carol Shields was born in Chicago and lived in Canada for most of her life. She is the author of three short story collections and eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize -- winning The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange Prize. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Carol Shield's the Stone Diaries (Reader's Guide)
 a reader from Seattle, Washington: This book came out at just the right time! My book group is reading Pulitzer Prize winning novels, and we're scheduled to read The Stone Diaries next week. Imagine my delight when I found Werlock's Reader's Guide in one [... more]
CDN$10.95
Amazon CA |
Carol Shields
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1935, Carol Shields moved to Canada at the age of twenty-two, after studying at the University of Exeter in England, and then obtained her M.A. at the University of Ottawa. She started publishing poetry in her ... [... more]
Random House |
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays From The New York Times
From Amazon.com: After 30 years as a journalist, John Darnton decided to try his hand at writing a novel. If he wrote 1,000 words a day, he discovered, he'd have a book in a matter of months. But wouldn't it be nice to learn a few tricks of the trade [... more]
CDN$19.95
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The Polished Hoe
Amazon.ca: Austin Clarke, Toronto resident and Barbados native, maintains that he doesn't write for the limelight, but alas the honours have come in: the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for The Origin of Waves, a Governor General's [... more]
CDN$22.95
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Larry's Party
From Amazon.com: Larry Weller is a regular guy, or so Carol Shields has him think. When we first meet him in 1977 Winnipeg at age 26, he's pondering the pluses of Harris tweed, still living at home, and realizing he's in love with his girlfriend, Dorrie, [... more]
CDN$35.00
Amazon CA |
Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in ...
Author: Carol Shields Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780679308560 ISBN: 0679308563 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 1997-04-07 Release Date: 1997-04-07 [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Penguin Lives Simone Weil
From Amazon.com: Writing with her customary grace and acuity, Francine du Plessix Gray, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated At Home with the Marquis de Sade, examines an equally extreme character at the opposite end of the moral spectrum in Simone [... more]
CDN$28.99
Amazon CA |
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Wow!: The only thing I read by Carol Shields before was the lovely little bio on Jane Austen. So I chose the Collected Short Stories to see what she is all about. I am fascinated. She has this straightforward voice yet likes to also play with your head. [... more]
CDN$22.00
Amazon CA |
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary
Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780773532205 ISBN: 077353220X Number Of Pages: 275 Publication Date: 2007-04-01 Release Date: 2007-04-01 [... more]
CDN$75.00
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Random Illuminations: Conversations with Carol Shields
Author: Eleanor Wachtel Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780864925015 ISBN: 0864925018 Number Of Pages: 184 Publication Date: 2007-09-21 [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Carol Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life
Author: Neil Besner Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780973160802 ISBN: 0973160802 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: 2003-03 [... more]
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