- Mass Market Paperback: 183 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Australia (27 April 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140118373
- ISBN-13: 978-0140118377
- Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 12.9 x 0.9 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,634,236 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Carol Shelds’s short stories are full of sentences you could almost sing… [her] sentences transmute base metal into gold.’
Independent
‘Shields’s stories are spiked by moments of supernatural transcendence.’
Victoria Glendinning
‘Shields’s outlines of lives, witty and generous, are alive with a fragile incandescence.’
Independent on Sunday
‘Carol Shields manages in a particularly original way to turn water into wine, transfiguring the mundane with meaning.’
The Times
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A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries", runner-up for the Booker Prize in 1993. The stories are all concerned with moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances: wild coincidences, declarations of love, and startling revelations.
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Short Stories That Feature Small Miracles in Real Time
22 Dec 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Carol Shields as short story writer lets her imagination ramble and authors a collection that helped her overcome writer's block while working on the novel Swann. She places her characters in a variety of circumstances where they experience those moments when the mirrors of reality align and understanding appears before them. These are not religious miracles, but understanding life, its richness and depth, in real time. Take an hour or two and read Sailors Lost at Sea; Scenes; Fragility; Dolls, Dolls, Dolls, Dolls; and Home. You'll discover Shields's optimism and faith in the ability of everday people to explore and discover.
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