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    The collected stories / Carol Shields.
    by Shields, Carol.
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    Random House Canada, 2004.
    Call #:FICTION SHI
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    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    "Featuring "Segue", a previously unpublished story"--Jacket.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.
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    Short stories, Canadian.
    Short stories.
    Canadian fiction.
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