Author: Carol Shields. Published by Random House Canada, Toronto, ON., 2002, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Like New Condition HARDCOVER Book, with New Condition Unclipped Dust Jacket.
UNLESS, will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter.
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Carol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
