DROPPED THREADS - What We Aren't Told
Shields, Carol; Anderson, Marjorie (editors) (Joan Barfoot; Lorna Crozier; Isabel Huggan; Anne Hart; Bonnie Burnard; Susan Lightstone; Marni Jackson;
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Vintage Books - Canada, Toronto, 2001
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(x) 358 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by Katrina Koven. This anthology contains: Starch Salt, Chocolate Wine by Joan Barfoot; What Stays in the Family by Lorna Corzier; Notes on a Piece for Carol by Isabel Huggan; Lettuce, Turnip and Pea by Anne Hart; Casseroles by Bonnie Burnard; Hope for the Best - Expect the Worst by Susan Lightstone; Tuck Me In - Redefining Attachment Between Mothers and Sons by Marni Jackson; How Do I Look by Joan Clark; Victory by Claudia Casper; Middle Aged Musing on Retirement by Janet E. Bradley; The Imaginary Woman by Betty Jane Wylie; Life's Curves by Rosalie Benoit Weaver; Old Age by June Callwood; Grace After Pressure by Jaqueline McLeod Rogers; If You Can't Say Something Nice Don't Say Anything at All by Margaret Atwood; Gilding the Dark Shades by Charlotte Gray; Mrs Jones by Lily Redmond; Edited Version by Isla James; Just a Part by Deborah Schnitzer; A Father's Faith by Miriam Toews; One Woman's Experience with the Ecstatic by Martha Brooks; Seeing by Sharon Butala; Birth Death and the Eleusinian Mysteries by Margaret Shaw-MacKinnon; Speechless by Eleanor Wachtel; Juliet by Helen Fogwill Porter; Hidden in the Hand by Renate Schulz; Wild Roses by Katherine Govier; Reflections from Cyberspace by Carol Hussa Harvey and Katherine C. H. Gardiner; I Have Blinds Now by Sandy Frances Duncan; The Joys of Belly Dancing by Katherine Martens; Politics: Is it a Woman's Game by The Honourable Sharon Carstairs; The Anger of Young Men by Blanche Howard; Still Life with Power by Anne Giardini; and The Worth of Women's Work by Nina Lee Colwill. Size: 8vo.…
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- Titel
- DROPPED THREADS - What We Aren't Told
- Autor
- Shields, Carol; Anderson, Marjorie (editors) (Joan Barfoot; Lorna Crozier; Isabel Huggan; Anne Hart; Bonnie Burnard; Susan Lightstone; Marni Jackson;
- Verlag
- Vintage Books - Canada, Toronto
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2001
- Zustand
- Very Good+
- Buchtyp
- Book
- Einband
- Soft cover
- Sprache
- Englisch
- ISBN-10
- 0679310711
- ISBN-13
- 9780679310716
- Illustrator
- Katrina Koven;
- Auflage
- Later Printing.
- Verkäuferkataloge
- Literature
“Our feeling was that women are so busy protecting themselves and other people that they still feel they have to keep quiet about some subjects,” Carol Shields explained in an interview. Dropped Threads takes as its model the kind of informal discussions women have every day – over coffee, over lunch, over work, over the Internet – and pushes them further, sometimes even into painful territory. Subjects include work, menopause, childbirth, a husband’s terminal illness, the loss of a child, getting old, the substance of women’s friendships, the power of sexual feelings, the power of power, and that nagging question, “How do I look?” Some of the experiences are instantly recognizable; others are bound to provoke debate or inspire readers to examine their own lives more closely.
The book is a collection of short, engaging pieces by more than thirty women, from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. Many are mothers, some are grandmothers, and many are professionals, including journalists, professors, lawyers, musicians, a corporate events planner and a senator. Readers will find the personal revelations of some of their favourite authors here, such as Margaret Atwood, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Butala, Joan Barfoot, Joan Clark and Katherine Govier. Other contributors include:
• Eleanor Wachtel, CBC radio host, talks about her early fears of speaking in public.
• June Callwood, journalist, social activist and a Companion of the Order of Canada, at the age of seventy-six is surprised at her failure to find answers to the imponderable dilemmas surrounding human life, and of her lack of connection to the “apparition” in the mirror.
• Isabel Huggan, short story writer, muses on what she considers the impossibility of mothers passing on knowledge to their daughters, and on her own feeling that “we are girls dressed up in ladies’ clothing, pretending.”
With writing that is reflective, often amusing, poignant, emotional and profound, Dropped Threads is the first book to tackle the lesser-discussed issues of middle age and is the first anthology the editors have compiled together.
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Anderson has had a lifelong interest in writing and storytelling and has been involved in editing and teaching editing skills for approximately twenty years; therefore, the task of editing Dropped Threads was a comfortable one for her and the collaboration with her friend Carol Shields was a great pleasure.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1935, CAROL SHIELDS moved to Canada at the age of twenty-two, after studying at the University of Exeter in England and the University of Ottawa. She started publishing poetry in her thirties, and is now the author of over twenty books, including plays, poetry, essays, short fiction, novels, a work of criticism on Susanna Moodie, and a new short biography of Jane Austen. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
The Stone Diaries (1993), her fictional biography of an ordinary woman who drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow and mother, bewildered even in old age by her inability to understand her place in her own life, received overwhelmingly favourable reviews. The book won a Governor General's Literary Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, bringing the author an international following. Another novel, Swann, was made into a film, and two more screenplays based on Shields’s books are in production. Larry’s Party, published in several countries and recently adapted into a musical stage play, won England’s Orange Prize, given to the best book by a woman writer in the English-speaking world. Shields says it was “a wonderful prize to get.”
Shields’ s novels are shrewdly-observed portrayals of everyday middle-class life. Reviewers have praised the author for exploring such universal problems as loneliness and lost opportunities. Shields, who has lived with illness for a number of years, speaks thankfully of her own fulfilling life; a former professor of English at the University of Manitoba and chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, she now lives in Victoria with her husband, a retired engineering professor, and is the mother of five grown children. Thanks to the success of The Stone Diaries, she was able to buy a summer home in France, nicknamed “Château Pulitzer” because the many literary awards she has received have dramatically increased sales of her work around the world.
Shields has spoken often of redeeming the lives of ordinary people by recording them in her works, “especially that group of women who came between the two great women's movements. … I think those women's lives were often thought of as worthless because they only kept house and played bridge. But I think they had value.”
In an eloquent afterword to Dropped Threads, Shields says her own experience has taught her that life was not a mountain to be climbed, but more like a novel with a series of chapters.
Carol Shields passed away in July 2003.
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