61. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Reviews | Plaintive Prose Of Unless carol shields' novel Unless is hard to get into but give it time andyou will be rewarded with a moving and intelligent narrative. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/2340257.stm

CATEGORIES TV RADIO COMMUNICATE ... INDEX SEARCH You are in: Entertainment: Reviews News Front Page World ... Programmes SERVICES Daily E-mail News Ticker Mobile/PDAs Text Only ... Help EDITIONS Change to World Friday, 18 October, 2002, 15:29 GMT 16:29 UK Plaintive prose of Unless Unless is Shields's 10th novel By Rebecca Thomas BBC News Online entertainment staff If you are the kind of reader who buys a book based on first page impressions, Carol Shields's Unless is likely to be consigned to your pile of great dust-gatherers of all time. A piece of literature that begins as depressingly as Unless with the words: "It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now," is hardly screaming to be read. But the name with which Shields has christened her work, with its all-embracing sense of possibility, should act as a firm guidance when approaching her book. Adopt an attitude of patience and objectivity and between the covers you will unlock an intelligent, moving, if not wholly satisfying, work of prose fiction. The book becomes increasing stimulating as it progresses The voice of desolation at the start of Unless is that of Canadian wife, mother and writer Reta Winters, who is our narrator and sole point of reference throughout.

62. Literature & Fiction / World Literature / Canadian / Authors, A-Z / Shields, Car Browse Bestsellers 1 24 1. The Stone Diaries by carol shields. PenguinUSA (Paper more. 2. Larry's Party by carol shields. Penguin USA http://hallworldliterature.com/world_literature/667.shtml

Home World Literature Canadian Authors, A-Z Shields, Carol The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 361 pages Reprint edition (April 1995) Click here for more info Amazon.com This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a... Read more Larry's Party by Carol Shields Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 339 pages (September 1998) Click here for more info 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, a flinty car saleswoman. Larry is proud of his job at... Read more A Celibate Season by Carol Shields, Blanche Howard Penguin USA (Paper) Paperback - 240 pages (May 1999) Click here for more info The New York Times Book Review , Michael Porter The epistolary form suits the story perfectly...

63. PRICEFARMER.COM: Farm-Fresh Price Comparisons Of Books carol shields. 1. Anniversary A Comedy (Paperback) by carol shields; Dave WilliamsonOctober 1998 2. The Box Garden (Paperback) by carol shields January 1996 http://www.pricefarmer.com/cgi-bin/farm?author=Shields, Carol

64. Salon.com Books | "Unless" By Carol Shields Unless by carol shields In the last novel by Pulitzerwinner carol shields, adaughter drops out to live on the street, forcing her mother to reassess her http://www.salon.com/books/review/2002/05/23/shields/

Search About Salon Table Talk Advertise in Salon ... Search All of Salon.com Only Books Directory Hot Topics J.R.R. Tolkien Harry Potter Book Reviews Dave Eggers ... Stephen King Articles by date All of Salon.com By department Books Comics ... Table Talk [Spirited Salon forums] The whole world in your hands A passion for reference books. Don't defenestrate your dictionary Flex your vocabulary. Posts of the week The Well [Pioneering members-only discussions] Paging Powell Tell Colin what you really think! Sound Off E-mail Salon Send us a Letter to the Editor Recent Letters Downloads Get Salon.com on your PDA "Unless" by Carol Shields In the last novel by Pulitzer-winner Carol Shields, a daughter drops out to live on the street, forcing her mother to reassess her "happy" life. By Laura Miller At one point in Carol Shields' new novel, the narrator, Reta Winters, contemplates a recurring dream in which she stands in her kitchen, charged with preparing a meal for guests, and discovers only "a single egg, or maybe a tomato," in the refrigerator. She doesn't consider the dream particularly symbolic. "For more than twenty years I've been responsible for producing three meals a day for the several individuals I live with. I may not be conscious of this obligation, but surely I must always, at some level, be calculating and apportioning the amount of food in the house and the number of bodies to be fed." There are some readers who simply cannot muster any interest in a novel in which the main character's mind can be preoccupied with such matters. Those readers may want to leave right now: The Chuck Palahniuk books are on the second shelf on your left as you go out. And have fun.

65. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Carol Shields Interviews May 10, 2002. Books by carol shields UNLESS. Reading GroupGuides THE STONE DIARIES LARRY'S PARTY. carol shields. BIO. http://aolsvc.bookreporter.aol.com/authors/au-shields-carol.asp

Explore AOL Entertainment Books and the Arts Celebrities Fun and Games On Video Movies Music TV AOL Entertainment Community AOL Entertainment Search AOL Entertainment Main AOL Member Services Interviews May 10, 2002 Books by Carol Shields UNLESS Reading Group Guides THE STONE DIARIES LARRY'S PARTY Carol Shields BIO Carol Shields is the author of ten novels and two collections of short stories. She is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for THE STONE DIARIES, which was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and the Orange Prize for LARRY'S PARTY. Born and brought up in Chicago, Carol Shields has lived in Canada since 1957. Back to top. INTERVIEW May 10, 2002 Carol Shields, author of UNLESS, puts a woman's life under the microscope with thought-provoking frankness. In this interview with Bookreporter.com's Kathy Weissman she remarks on marriage, feminist outrage and her own unique approach to writing. BRC: You've said in an interview that UNLESS "just came out." How do you think this spontaneity makes it different from your previous books? CS: I've never believed in "inspiration" or the mystique of writing. But I suppose all these drugs we draw into our bodies and our altered sense of time must make us aware in a new way - and give us a sense of permission.

66. List Of Books Introduction by carol shields Random House, Inc , paper , 368 pages. by carol shields,Erica Jong and Anna Quindlen Simon Schuster Trade , paper , 240 pages. http://www.semcoop.com/author/2576

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67. READ Magazine - CELEBRATING CAROL SHIELDS FEATURE CELEBRATING carol shields By Nino Ricci Excerpted from his speech in Toronto,April 2002 BACK TO TOP, a letter from Marjorie Anderson and carol shields. http://www.randomhouse.ca/readmag/volume3issue2/features/carolshields.htm

FEATURE CELEBRATING CAROL SHIELDS By Nino Ricci: Excerpted from his speech in Toronto, April 2002 Signing copies fo Unless in her kitchen, April 2002 When I first read The Stone Diaries I wanted to write a letter to Carol to tell her how moved I was by it, and how much I had learned from it. But the time passed and I did not write; and then the book was being so continuously showered with accolades that I hardly dared anymore to add my own little voice to the chorus. I regret now that I did not write that letter, and so am glad to have had this chance to redress, in part, that failure. I’m glad as well of the excuse this evening gave me to reread The Stone Diaries. What struck me in this recent reading was how much the book is about reinvention, about the possibility BACK TO TOP Excerpt Unless Early on we thought Norah’s problem was a boyfriend problem. And Ben Abbot really is a boy, with a boy’s face and gangling frame; it was this that Norah loved in the beginning, I suspect, the thoroughly innocent leanness of his shoulders, neck, the ribs bursting out above his jeans, barely covered by flesh. If he had an aura, it would be coloured by the state of beatitude. By thirty he will have acquired a supple, sexual bulk, but now he is quickness and nerve and seems always willing to be disturbed by his own body, taking its awkwardness as part of the gift of youth. I’ve never yet seen him sit back in a chair, relaxed. He perches, his eyes watchful, his mouth just a little open, a boy’s observant, greedy mouth.

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