| Unless Contributor(s): Shields, Carol (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060874406 ISBN-13: 9780060874407 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: Reta Winters, 44-year-old author of light summertime fiction and mother of three beautiful teenage daughters, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously abandons college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner--uncommunicative but for a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 5.36" W x 8.01" (0.69 lbs) 352 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 65928 Reading Level: 7.4 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Nothing short of astonishing." -- New Yorker "A thing of beauty--lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." -- Los Angeles Times For all of her life, 44 year old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light 'summertime' fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope. The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shields, Carol: - Carol Shields was born in Chicago and lived in Canada for most of her life. She is the author of three short story collections and eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize -- winning The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange Prize. |