Carol Shields Boeken

Vier mensen, die elkaar niet kennen, voelen zich betrokken bij een overleden vrouw waardoor hun leven drastisch verandert.

Een jonge Canadees wordt in 1978 gegrepen door doolhoven, die een blijvende rol in zijn leven spelen en een symbool zijn voor zijn zoektocht naar zichzelf.

Voor Reta Winters is het leven als een rimpelloze vijver. Haar huwelijk is goed, ze woont in een heerlijk huis, ze heeft drie fantastische dochters en behalve als vertaalster begint ze ook als schrijfster succesvol te worden. Het geluk kan niet op, tot haar oudste dochter Norah stopt met haar studie. Ze bedelt op straat in Toronto met om haar nek een bord waar GOEDHEID op staat. Wat is er gebeurd? Waar ging het mis?

Fifty short writings by Carol Shields are compiled in this collection, featuring over two dozen previously unpublished stories and essays. These pieces provide unique insights into her creative journey, enriching the understanding of her literary contributions. Scholars and fans alike will find value in this exploration of Shields's writing life, as it showcases her diverse talent and the evolution of her work.

A rollicking rhyming dinosaur picture book for young children.

For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume. volumes: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival. Some of the stories in these individual collections have never before been published in the UK, and we add to these wonderful shorter fictions a chapter from Carol Shields' last, unfinished, novel Segue. that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart. There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man. And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times. Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man? Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations? Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them in this touching and ironic book.

An oblique look at the capriciousness of modern life, this is the story of the Canary family. Little Joan is exquisitely tiny, plays the piano like Mozart and lives in a closet. Her sister Marcy is a numphomaniac with a poodle fixation, while Sonia is enormous, earns a fortune clipping0

The story of a woman's life and what make her tick.

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. A CELIBATE SEASON is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, (Jock and Chas) and their self-imposed separation of ten months when Jock accepts a job in a city more than three thousand miles away from her family. As breadwinner and suddenly single again Jock is confronted with local politics, loneliness and advances from the opposite sex. Meanwhile back at home, Chas, an unemployed architect, is now a single parent who has to reacquaint himself with his teenage children, Mia and Greg, learn to run a household and shift his career priorities. Throw in an attractive young housekeeper, a mother-in-law who enjoys her wine, a touch of teenage angst, some unexpected home renovations and a disastrous Christmas dinner and you have modern family life.

Two stories from a marriage in crisis: thewife's story and the husband's story. The setting issuburbia, the time frame a week spent apart. She goes toa quilting convention where she has an affair, he stayshome to mind the kids and discuss manhood with a friendwho has been abandoned by his wife

Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time. 'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW

Leadership is one of the principal interests of the social sciences. Drawing on psychology, sociology, anthropology and business studies as well as philosophy and history, this four-volume collection focuses on democratic leadership in the political sphere. What makes a successful political leader? How much influence can an individual really have? Why are so few top political leaders women? David Bell roots this collection in the classic works of Machiavelli and Weber, before turning to the work of the American political scientists who were the first to study leadership in a systematic way in the 1960s, and coming right up-to-date with the work of Skowronek and others. Theories of leadership Machiavelli and political leadership Weber's view of political leadership Leadership character Ethics of leadership The entourage - the leader's team Political artifice in leadership The leadership effect.

A new 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). In every 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 the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush , Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times.Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles, with wit and wisdom, Canadian society in the mid-19th century.The NCL edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text.

5 Tage im Leben des über 15 Jahre verheirateten Ehepaaars Brenda und Jack Bowman, in denen sie jeweils aus eigener Sicht erzählen, geben ein gutes Bild von ihnen, ihrer Ehe und ihrer Entwicklung. Während Brenda erstmals in ihrer Ehe allein wegfliegt, um in Philadelphia an einer Kunsthandwerkerausstellung teilzunehmen, muss Jack sich um Haus und Restfamilie kümmern, Diese kurze Zeit der Trennung bringt für beide unvorhergesehene Überraschungen und Einsichten

Mit ihrem neuesten Roman, einem köstlich ironischen und anspruchsvollen Werk der modernen Romantik, wird Carol Shields die Herzen mit ihrer bewegenden Vision von der Beständigkeit der Liebe in einer Zeit des Zweifels gewinnen.