Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields

Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields

A new collection of short stories from the author of ‘The Stone Diaries’, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and ‘Larry’s Party, winner of the Orange Prize. In every town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In ‘Weather’ a couple’s life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Metereorologists go on strike – what will they wear? What will they eat? In ‘Soup du Jour’ a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement and his mother’s soup-making. Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields’ second collection of short stories celebrates the extraordinary details that are found in ordinary, everyday lives.

Carol Shields is American born, spent three years in Manchester in the 60s, but now lives in Canada. Married with five children. Her first novel was published in 1990.

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ISBN 13	9781841151649
ISBN 10	1841151645
Title	Dressing Up for the Carnival
Author	Carol Shields
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2000-02-24
Number of pages	256
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