Various Miracles

Carol Shields

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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.

Book Details

Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
Publish Date: Mar 26th, 1996
Pages: 224
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.50in - 0.57lb
EAN: 9780679307785
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.

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Praise for this book

"Carol Shield's stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure. They're prismatic; they delight at first by the clear and simple elegance with which they are made, then there's something so bountiful and surprising, like beautiful broken light." --Alice Munro

"Carol Shields is a wonderful writer--wry, witty, wise and fiercely intelligent. Many of the stories in this collection are deliciously funny; all are memorable." --Janette Turner Hospital