Carol Shields

A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry's Party (winner of the Orange prize) All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife's lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In 'Weather' a couple's life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Metereorologists go on strike - what will they wear? What will they eat? In 'Soup du Jour' a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement and his mother's soup-making. Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields' second collection of short stories celebrates the extraordinary details that are found in ordinary, everyday lives.

In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage.

Winner of The Women�s Prize for Fiction.

Mor, kone og forfatter, Judith Gill finner sitt eget liv overskygget av hennes trang til å observere og forstå. Hennes liv er formet av andres handlinger, inntil hun oppdager sin egen rolle som oversetter av livets små sermonier.

In a record breaking "hat trick," Carol Shields was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel,The Stone Diaries, the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, and was shortlisted for Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. Carleton University Press is pleased to release a newly designed edition of her poetry book, Coming to Canada, first published by CUP in 1992. This collection of nearly 60 poems includes the key "Coming to Canada" sequence, and is supplemented with selections from two previous volumes, Others (1972) and Intersect (1974). Among the finest writers in the world, Carol Shields has won a large and loyal audience as a witty, compassionate and insightful novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet. She is the author of 15 books. Arriving in Canada from the United States in 1957, Shields is a long-time resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba, where she is Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

Judith Gill on keski-ikää lähestyvä elämäkertojen kirjoittaja, jolla on kirjallisuudentutkija-aviomiehensä kanssa teini-ikäinen tytär ja poika. Mielestään Judith on elänyt tyydyttävää ja täyttä elämää, mutta luvassa on yllätyksiä. Yrittäessään kirjoittaa omaa romaania Judith keksii tarinan, jonka juoni päätyykin ystävän menestysromaaniin, ja hän närkästyy. Läpikotaisin tutut ihmiset näyttäytyvät omituisessa valossa; kukaan ei olekaan sitä mitä Judith on kuvitellut. Ei edes Judith itse. Carol Shields (1935-2003) hallitsi jo tässä 1970-luvulla kirjoittamassaan teoksessa lempeän ironisen arjen kuvauksen, josta hänet hyvin tunnetaan. Romaani on mainio ajankuva, mutta samalla ajaton ruotiessaan elämän peruskysymyksiä säihkyvin, huolella sorvatuin lausein. "Pelkistyksen ja ironian mestari", kuvaa Turun Sanomat rakastettua kirjailijaa.