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Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Shields, Carol.
Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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The collected stories / Carol Shields.
by
Shields, Carol.
Random House Canada, 2004.
Call #:
FICTION SHI
Subjects
Canada -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780679313274 (2005 Vintage Canada trade pbk.)
9780060762032
0679313265
Alternate title:
Segue.
Various miracles.
The orange fish.
Dressing
up
for the
carnival
.
Description:
593 p. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"Featuring "Segue", a previously unpublished story"--Jacket.
Originally published: Random House Canada, 2004.
Hardcover edition contains an introduction by Margaret Atwood.
Contents:
Introduction -- Segue -- Various miracles: Various miracles -- Mrs. Turner cutting the grass -- Accidents -- Sailors lost at sea -- Purple blooms -- Flitting behavior -- Pardon -- Words -- Poaching -- Scenes -- Fragility -- The metaphor is dead-- pass it on -- A wood (with Anne Giardini) -- Love so fleeting, love so fine -- Dolls, dolls, dolls, dolls -- Invitations -- Taking the train -- Home -- The journal -- Salt -- Others -- The orange fish: The orange fish -- Chemistry -- Hazel -- Today is the day -- Hinterland -- Block out -- Collision -- Good manners -- Times of sickness and health -- Family secrets -- Fuel for the fire -- Milk bread beer ice --
Dressing
up
for the
carnival
:
Dressing
up
for the
carnival
-- A scarf -- Weather -- Flatties: their various forms and uses -- Dying for love -- Ilk -- Stop! -- Mirrors -- The harp -- Our men and women -- Keys -- Absence -- Windows -- Reportage -- Edith-Esther -- New music -- Soup du jour -- Invention -- Death of an artist -- The next best kiss -- Eros --
Dressing
down.
Summary:
For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories are gathered together in one volume. The Collected Stories brings together Carol Shields original short story volumes: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and
Dressing
Up
for the
Carnival
. Some of the stories in these individual collections have never before been published, and we add to these wonderful shorter fictions a chapter from Carol Shields' last, unfinished, novel Segue.
Genre:
Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories.
Canadian fiction.
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Adult Fiction
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Adult Fiction
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