Swann by Carol Shields
Mary Swann, a latter-day Emily Dickinson, submitted a bag full of poems to newspaper editor hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. How could someone who lived such a dull, sheltered life produce these works of genius? Four very different people search for the elusive answer.Carol Shields’s novels include Unless; Larry’s Party, winner of The Women’s Prize; The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Republic of Love; Happenstance; and Mary Swann. Dressing Up for the Carnivaland Various Miracles, collections of short stories, were later published as The Collected Stories. Brought up in Chicago, Shields lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003.
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ISBN 13 | 9780006550600 |
ISBN 10 | 0006550606 |
Title | Swann |
Author | Carol Shields |
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Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Year published | 1997-02-03 |
Number of pages | 320 |
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