1999, ISBN: 9780007154616
Time Life Education, 1999-07-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.7000 in x 10.1000 in x 8.3000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Time Life Education… Mehr…
usa, usa | Biblio.co.uk |
ISBN: 9780007154616
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out… Mehr…
BetterWorldBooks.com used in stock. Versandkosten:zzgl. Versandkosten. Details... |
ISBN: 9780007154616
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out… Mehr…
BetterWorldBooks.com used in stock. Versandkosten:zzgl. Versandkosten. Details... |
2003, ISBN: 0007154615
[EAN: 9780007154616], [SC: 3.79], [PU: Fourth Estate], Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes … Mehr…
ZVAB.com |
ISBN: 9780007154616
Harper Perennial. Used - Good. . . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Tha9780060245863 business., Harper Perennial, 2.5
Biblio.co.uk |
1999, ISBN: 9780007154616
Time Life Education, 1999-07-01. Hardcover. Good. 0.7000 in x 10.1000 in x 8.3000 in. This is a used book in good condition and may show some signs of use or wear ., Time Life Education… Mehr…
ISBN: 9780007154616
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out… Mehr…
ISBN: 9780007154616
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out… Mehr…
2003, ISBN: 0007154615
[EAN: 9780007154616], [SC: 3.79], [PU: Fourth Estate], Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes … Mehr…
ISBN: 9780007154616
Harper Perennial. Used - Good. . . All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Tha9780060245863 business., Harper Perennial, 2.5
Bibliographische Daten des bestpassenden Buches
Autor: | |
Titel: | |
ISBN-Nummer: |
Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness".
, "A life is full of isolated events," writes Carol Shields near the end of Unless, "but these events, if they are to form a coherent narrative, require odd pieces of language to link them together, little chips of grammar (mostly adverbs or prepositions) that are hard to define... words like therefore, else, other, also, thereof, therefore, instead, otherwise, despite, already, and not yet." Shield's explanation for her novel's title lends meaning to this multilayered narrative in which a mother's grief over a daughter's break with the family revises her feminist outlook and pushes her craft as a writer in a new direction.The oldest daughter of 44-year-old Reta Winters suddenly, inexplicably, drops out of college and ends up on a Toronto street corner panhandling, with a cardboard sign around her neck that reads "goodness." The quiet comforts of Reta's small-town life and the constancy of her feminist perspective sustain her hope that her daughter will snap out of this, whatever "this" is. Threaded into her family's crisis is her ongoing internal elegy on the exclusion of women from the literary canon, which she transposes to mean her daughter's exclusion from humanity. Reta wonders if her daughter has discovered, as she herself did years before, that the world is "an endless series of obstacles, an alignment of locked doors," and has chosen to pursue the one thing that doesn't require power or a voice: goodness.
In her own writing, Reta reaffirms her own sense of self, as well as her sense of humor. As her theoretical reflections on modern womanhood play counterpoint to her unwavering sense of creating a home and keeping her family together, Reta's smarts and fears form a wonderfully coherent narrative--a life worth reading about. With Unless, the inaugural title in HarperCollins's Fourth Estate imprint, Shields (author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Stone Diaries) once again asserts her place in the canon. --Emily Russin
Detailangaben zum Buch - Unless
EAN (ISBN-13): 9780007154616
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0007154615
Gebundene Ausgabe
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Herausgeber: Fourth Estate
Buch in der Datenbank seit 2007-05-30T15:50:38+02:00 (Berlin)
Detailseite zuletzt geändert am 2022-05-14T16:55:01+02:00 (Berlin)
ISBN/EAN: 9780007154616
ISBN - alternative Schreibweisen:
0-00-715461-5, 978-0-00-715461-6
Alternative Schreibweisen und verwandte Suchbegriffe:
Autor des Buches: shields carol
Titel des Buches: unless
Weitere, andere Bücher, die diesem Buch sehr ähnlich sein könnten:
Neuestes ähnliches Buch:
5220007137690 Unless (Carol Shields)
< zum Archiv...