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The Orange Fish
A superb collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award. Emerging from these twelve beautifully articulated stories are portraits of men and women whose affairs and recoveries in life take us into worlds that are both new and yet unnervingly familiar. A smile of recognition and a shock of surprise await readers of these finely crafted stories. From the magical orange fish itself -- enigmatic and without age -- to holiday reunions; from the passions and pains of lovers and friends to the moving uncertainty of a Parisian vacation, this exquisite collection is bound to delight and enchant Carol Shields' fans everywhere.
Book Details
- Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
- Publish Date: Jul 27th, 1990
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.70in - 0.52lb
- EAN: 9780394221182
- Recommended age: 18-UP
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary• Family Life - General
About the Author
CAROL SHIELDS (1935-2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and Swann. Shields's work has been translated into 33 languages.
Praise for this book
"Snatching profundity from the jaws of the banal is Shields' specialty...[her] extraordinary ability to find both mystery and meaning in the chaos of everyday life..."
--Maclean's "These are wonderful stories."
--Books in Canada "Shields is able to give some of the most complex accounts of human nature I've read in a short story."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Infused with a sly humour, these poignant stories revel in the ordinary, with a few side trips to the sublime... both moving and wry."
--Washington Post "Reading [these stories] gives you a sense of art spilling over into life... Even the briefest and apparently arbitrary details of life seem incandescent."
--Toronto Star
"Shields is a sympathetic storyteller who brings her quirky, touching characters to exuberant life."
--New York Newsday "A wise, expansive voice... the author turns normal everyday memories and events into poetic prophecy."
--Newsday
--Maclean's "These are wonderful stories."
--Books in Canada "Shields is able to give some of the most complex accounts of human nature I've read in a short story."
--San Francisco Chronicle
"Infused with a sly humour, these poignant stories revel in the ordinary, with a few side trips to the sublime... both moving and wry."
--Washington Post "Reading [these stories] gives you a sense of art spilling over into life... Even the briefest and apparently arbitrary details of life seem incandescent."
--Toronto Star
"Shields is a sympathetic storyteller who brings her quirky, touching characters to exuberant life."
--New York Newsday "A wise, expansive voice... the author turns normal everyday memories and events into poetic prophecy."
--Newsday