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Carol Shields

    2 juni 1935 – 16 juli 2003

    Carol Ann Shields was een in Amerika geboren Canadese auteur die de complexiteit van het dagelijks leven met diepgaand inzicht onderzocht. Haar werk duikt vaak in het innerlijke leven van haar personages, waarbij ze hun relaties, herinneringen en de stille drama's onderzoekt die hun bestaan vormgeven. Shields bezat een opmerkelijk vermogen om het gewone buitengewoon te maken, waarbij ze precieze en suggestieve taal gebruikte om de verborgen complexiteiten binnen schijnbaar eenvoudige verhalen te ontdekken. Haar verkenning van thema's als identiteit, familie en het verstrijken van de tijd resoneerde diep bij lezers en vestigde haar als een belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse literatuur.

    Carol Shields
    Collected Stories
    Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
    The Canadian Shields
    Tenzij / druk 1
    Larry´s Party
    Het Swann-symposium
    • The Canadian Shields

      Stories and Essays

      • 336bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Fifty short writings by Carol Shields are compiled in this collection, featuring over two dozen previously unpublished stories and essays.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.

      The Canadian Shields2024
      4,9
    • The Republic Of Love

      • 448bladzijden
      • 16 uur lezen

      A celebration of love in its many guises, The Republic of Love recounts the heartfelt tale of two of life's unlucky lovers: Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man; and, right across the street, Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who s been through three marriages and divorces in his search for true happiness.

      The Republic Of Love2011
      3,9
    • Collected Stories

      • 593bladzijden
      • 21 uur lezen

      For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume.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.

      Collected Stories2004
      4,1
    • Tenzij / druk 1

      • 281bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      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?

      Tenzij / druk 12002
      3,6
    • Jane Austen

      • 208bladzijden
      • 8 uur lezen

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

      Jane Austen2001
      3,7
    • This is a new collection of short stories, which brings together the dazzling virtuosity and wise maturity that won so many readers to novels such as The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party.

      Dressing up for the carnival2001
      3,6
    • A Celibate Season

      • 231bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      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.

      A Celibate Season2000
      3,6
    • Sie und Er. Er und sie

      • 507bladzijden
      • 18 uur lezen

      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

      Sie und Er. Er und sie1999
    • Larry´s Party

      • 363bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      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.

      Larry´s Party1997
      3,8
    • Mister Sandman

      • 272bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      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

      Mister Sandman1996
      3,8
    • 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.

      The box garden1995
      3,5
    • 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

      Happenstance1993
      3,7
    • Het Swann-symposium

      • 393bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

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

      Het Swann-symposium1993
      3,8
    • The Stone Diaries

      • 361bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      The Stone Diaries is Carol Shields’s most celebrated work and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful novels of the past two decades. A fictional autobiography of an ordinary woman, this multi-award-winning book (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Governor-General’s Award) serves as a record of the last century. Daisy Goodwill is on a journey of self-discovery. From her last days in a Florida nursing home she looks back in an attempt to make sense of her life story. It is a life like any other, filled with the richness of human relations and the sting of disappointments both big and small. The beauty of this work lies in the details, the tiny brushstrokes of character and setting, at which Carol Shields is the undisputed master. This engrossing abridged recording was first broadcast on CBC Radio in 1995. Carol Shields both reviewed and approved the abridgement and the recording.

      The Stone Diaries1993
      3,9