Various Miracles: Stories - Softcover

Shields, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480459836 ISBN 13: 9781480459830

Verlag: Open Road Media, 2013

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"Carol Shields' stories have given me happiness, not just pleasure. They're prismatic; they delight me at first by the clear and simple elegance with which they are made, then there's something so bountiful and surprising, like beautiful broken light." --Alice Munro
"In [Carol Shields's] hands we believe anything can happen." --The Guardian
"Carol Shields is a brilliant writer. The stories mirror our lives in all the closest and most intimate ways and at the same time are entertaining--quite wickedly entertaining." --Elizabeth Jolley
"These are stories to learn from--about the amazing power of language to recreate life on the page, and about life itself. Carol Shields is a marvelous writer--perceptive, witty, ironic and tender--whose poetic and analytical gifts make Various Miracles a dazzling collection." --Isabel Huggan

Reseña del editor:

The small miracles of our day-to-day lives are on captivating display in this unforgettable collection by Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Shields Various Miracles brings together twenty-one short stories, modern parables that illuminate the mysteries of everyday existence. In the title story, four strangers on a bus are all reading the same book. In "Fragility," Ivy's husband reflects on their marriage, the death of their young son, Christopher, and the plane ride that will deliver them to a new life. From "The Metaphor Is Dead - Pass It On" to "Home" to "Others"-in which a couple's act of generosity is repaid in annual Christmas cards with no return address-this collection is by turns witty, inventive, and moving. Whether portraying a violinist yearning to break free of overprotective parents or an elderly widow mowing her lawn to the thunderous timpani of memory, Carol Shields depicts the struggles of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary circumstances. It's a world where magic coexists with reality, and where leaps of faith and acts of kindness create their own miracles.

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• Verlag: Open Road Media
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1480459836
• ISBN 13: 9781480459830
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 228