Unless
About this book
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.
Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.
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[1]: http://www.carol-shields.com/unless.html
Details
- First published
- 2002
- OL Work ID
- OL18342W
Subjects
literary fictiongoodnessEthel Wilson Fiction Prize winnerLiteraturePsychological fictionTeenage girlsMothers and daughtersFictionWomen authorsMentally illDomestic fictionfriendswomenAmerican literatureMothers and daughters, fictionOntario, fictionFiction, psychologicalLarge type books