Book
Unless : a novel / Carol Shields.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780679311805 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 320 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: Vintage Canada edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2003.
- Copyright: ©2002
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published: Toronto : Random House Canada, 2002. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Mothers and daughters > Fiction. Women authors > Fiction. Teenage girls > Fiction. Mentally ill > Fiction. Domestic fiction. Ontario > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Psychological fiction. |
Available copies
- 26 of 28 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 2 of 2 copies available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 28 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince Rupert Library | SHIE (Text) | 33294001231703 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | SHIE (Text) | 33294001748748 | Storage | Not holdable | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.”
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. 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.
GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta’s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta’s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour.
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. - Random House, Inc.
âUnless youâre lucky, unless youâre healthy, fertile, unless youâre loved and fed, unless youâre offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.â Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. 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. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Retaâs wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Retaâs voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shieldsâs fiction.
