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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 Mail

 Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'Goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. 'Unless' is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.

Unless

Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction. source: carol-shields.com

Bonté

A quarante-quatre ans, Reta Winkers est une femme heureuse. Romancière, traductrice, mère de trois enfants, elle voit sa tranquille existence bouleversée le jour où Norah, sa fille aînée, disparaît. On la retrouve assise au coin d'une rue de Toronto, plongée dans un mutisme total. Autour de son cou, un écriteau où l'on peut lire le mot " bonté ". Ce drame conduit chaque membre de la famille à se remettre en question. La vie intérieure de Reta et son écriture s'en trouvent radicalement transformées. D'incessantes questions se bousculent dans sa tête pourquoi n'a-t-elle pu empêcher la fuite de sa fille ? S'agit-il d'un acte de révolte ou d'un simple appel au secours ? Que faire pour ramener Norah à la " vie " ? Dans ce récit d'une introspection, Carol Shields nous livre par petites touches, d'une plume grave mais souvent teintée d'humour et d'ironie, les clés d'une réflexion brillante sur la société actuelle et sur la place que celle-ci accorde aux femmes.

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.

La république de l'amour

Brenda, traveling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair. Later published as a joint edition with Happenstance (a standalone of the husband's story, which was published first) as Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition.

Au moment même: Récit de la femme

Une saison de celibat

Modern fictionShields' Booker-shortlisted novel, which will be backed with a major outdoor poster and national press campaign, and which will be accompanied by a full repackaging of Shields' backlist. "Our most intelligent and beguiling observer...Unless is her most raw and intentful novel yet" Sunday Times.

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