Carol Shields, geboren 1935 in Oak Park, Illinois, übersiedelte 1957 nach Kanada und war dort Professorin für Anglistik an verschiedenen Universitäten. Sie gehört zu den renommiertesten Autorinnen ihres Landes. Sie veröffentlichte zahlreiche Romane und Kurzgeschichten, für »Das Tagebuch der Daisy Goodwill«, wochenlang auf Platz 1 der Bestsellerlisten in Amerika und England, wurde sie mit dem Pulitzerpreis ausgezeichnet, für »Alles über Larry« mit dem Orange Prize. 2002 wurde ihr der Order of Canada verliehen. Zuletzt lebte sie mit ihrem Mann in Victoria, British Columbia, wo sie 2003 starb. Auf deutsch erschien 2005 ihr letzter, für mehrere Preise nominierter Roman »Die Geschichte der Reta Winters«.
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Carol Shields: Die Geschichte der Reta Winters
Einfühlsam und elegant erzählt Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Carol Shields die Geschichte einer Mutter, die gezwungen wird, alles Selbstverständliche hinter sich zu lassen und neue Wege einzuschlagen. Ihr L …
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Carol Shields: Alles über Larry
Sind Sie ein typischer Mann? Was ist ein typischer Mann? Diese Frage stellt Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Carol Shields in diesem ironischen Roman, in dem – nicht ganz zufällig – die Frauen die Hosen anhabe …
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Carol Shields: Das Tagebuch der Daisy Goodwill
Carol Shields, die für diesen Roman den Pulitzerpreis erhielt, erzählt raffiniert und lebensnah von einem Frauenleben im 20. Jahrhundert. An einem allzu heißen Nachmittag des Jahres 1905 kommt Daisy …
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Carol Shields: Die süße Tyrannei der Liebe
Pulitzer-Preisträgerin Carol Shields erzählt mit viel Ironie eine ungewöhnliche, bitter-süße Liebesgeschichte. Talk-Show-Moderator Tom Avery ist dreimal geschieden. Fay Mc Leod ist eine unverheiratet …
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Carol Shields: Collected Stories
For the first time all of Carol Shields’ remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one volume.’Carol Shields’ stories have given me happiness, not just pleasur …
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Blanche Howard & Carol Shields: Celibate Season
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 traditio …
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Carol Shields: Unless
Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party’, winner of the Orange Prize.’Breathtaking…a masterpiece.’ Geoffrey Wansell, Daily …
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Carol Shields: Duet
Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. …
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Carol Shields: Larry’s Party
The Orange Prize-winning novel of Larry Weller, a man who discovers the passion of his life in the ordered riotousness of Hampton Court’s Maze.Larry and his naive young wife, Dorrie, spend their hone …
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Carol Shields: Unless
"[Shields is] unsparing as she explores the black holes of uncertainty in women’s lives . . . these are the dark thoughts of an illuminating novel." -Chicago Tribune The final book from Pul …
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Carol Shields: Collected Stories
With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, an …
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Carol Shields: Larry’s Party
The Stone Diaries marked a new phase in a literary career already ablaze with achievement. As well as the many international awards it received, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critic …
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Carol Shields: Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters …
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Carol Shields: Unless
Unless youre lucky, unless youre healthy, fertile, unless youre loved and fed, unless youre offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.Reta Winters has many reasons …
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Carol Shields: Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Carol Shields, the Pulitzer Prize-winner author of the novels Unless, The Stone Diaries and Larrys Party was also a renowned short story writer. Now readers can enjoy all three of Carol Shieldss shor …
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Carol Shields: Startle and Illuminate
In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry’s Party, The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Sh …
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Carol Shields: Coming to Canada
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 shortli …
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Carol Shields: Happenstance
These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband’s Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and …
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Carol Shields: The Stone Diaries
Widely regarded as a modern classic, The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; that of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905. Beautifully written and deepl …
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Carol Shields: The Republic of Love
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 …
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Carol Shields: Mary Swann
Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband brutally …
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Carol Shields: Jane Austen
Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists – recently voted best author of all time.’Splendid … a gem’ LITERARY REVIEW’An excellent bio …
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Carol Shields: Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems …
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Carol Shields: Collected Poetry of Carol Shields
Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems …
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