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Month by Month a Year Goes round by Carol Diggory Shields
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world's most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners - many who later became judges and associates of the court. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys. This book contains copies of all known US Supreme Court filings related to this case including any transcripts of record, briefs, petitions, motions, jurisdictional statements, and memorandum filed. This book does not contain the Court's opinion. The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping ensure edition identification:Baker (Jefferson) v. Callaway (Howard)
Petition / WALTER B CONWAY / 1973 / 73-1405 / 417 U.S. 945 / 94 S.Ct. 3069 / 41 L.Ed.2d 665 / 3-19-1974
Baker (Jefferson) v. Callaway (Howard)
Brief in Opposition (P) / ROBERT H BORK / 1973 / 73-1405 / 417 U.S. 945 / 94 S.Ct. 3069 / 41 L.Ed.2d 665 / 5-17-1974
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 then obtained her M.A. at the University of Ottawa. She started publishing poetry in her thirties, and wrote her first novel, Small Ceremonies, in 1976. Over the next three decades, Shields would become the author of over twenty books, including plays, poetry, essays, short fiction, novels, a book of criticism on Susanna Moodie and a biography of Jane Austen. Her work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
In addition to her writing, Carol Shields worked as an academic, teaching at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitoba. In 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She lived for fifteen years in Winnipeg and often used it as a backdrop to her fiction, perhaps most notably in Republic of Love. Shields also raised five children a son and four daughters with her husband Don, and often spoke of juggling early motherhood with her nascent writing career. When asked in one interview whether being a mother changed her as a writer, she replied, Oh, completely. I couldn t have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. And my children give me this other window on the world.
The Stone Diaries, her fictional biography of Daisy Goodwill, a woman who drifts through her life as child, wife, mother and widow, bewildered by her inability to understand any of these roles, received excellent reviews. The book won a Governor General s Literary Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, bringing Shields an international following. Her novel Swann was made into a film (1996), as was The Republic of Love (2003; directed by Deepa Mehta). Larry s Party, published in several countries and 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. And Shields s final novel, Unless, was shortlisted for the Booker, Orange and Giller prizes and the Governor General s Literary Award, and won the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction.
Shields s novels are shrewdly observed portrayals of everyday life. Reviewers praised her for exploring such universal themes as loneliness and lost opportunities, though she also celebrated the beauty and small rewards that are so often central to our happiness yet missing from our fiction. In an eloquent afterword to Dropped Threads, Shields says her own experience taught her that life is not a mountain to be climbed, but more like a novel with a series of chapters.
Carol Shields was always passionate about biography, both in her writing and her reading, and in 2001 she published a biography of Jane Austen. For Shields, Austen was among the greatest of novelists and served as a model: Jane Austen has figured out the strategies of fiction for us and made them plain. In 2002, Jane Austen won the coveted Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction. A similar biographical impulse lay behind the two Dropped Threads anthologies Carol Shields edited with Marjorie Anderson; their contributors were encouraged to write about those experiences that women are normally not able to talk about. 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, Shields explained in an interview.
Shields spoke often of redeeming the lives of people by recording them in her own 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 1998, Shields was diagnosed with breast cancer. Speaking on her illness, Shields once said, It s made me value time in a way that I suppose I hadn t before. I m spending my time listening, listening to what's going around, what's happening around me instead of trying to get it all down. In 2000, Shields and her husband Don moved from Winnipeg to Victoria, where they lived until her passing on July 16, 2003, from complications of breast cancer, at age 68.
In addition to her writing, Carol Shields worked as an academic, teaching at the University of Ottawa, the University of British Columbia and the University of Manitoba. In 1996, she became chancellor of the University of Winnipeg. She lived for fifteen years in Winnipeg and often used it as a backdrop to her fiction, perhaps most notably in Republic of Love. Shields also raised five children a son and four daughters with her husband Don, and often spoke of juggling early motherhood with her nascent writing career. When asked in one interview whether being a mother changed her as a writer, she replied, Oh, completely. I couldn t have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. And my children give me this other window on the world.
The Stone Diaries, her fictional biography of Daisy Goodwill, a woman who drifts through her life as child, wife, mother and widow, bewildered by her inability to understand any of these roles, received excellent reviews. The book won a Governor General s Literary Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize, bringing Shields an international following. Her novel Swann was made into a film (1996), as was The Republic of Love (2003; directed by Deepa Mehta). Larry s Party, published in several countries and 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. And Shields s final novel, Unless, was shortlisted for the Booker, Orange and Giller prizes and the Governor General s Literary Award, and won the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction.
Shields s novels are shrewdly observed portrayals of everyday life. Reviewers praised her for exploring such universal themes as loneliness and lost opportunities, though she also celebrated the beauty and small rewards that are so often central to our happiness yet missing from our fiction. In an eloquent afterword to Dropped Threads, Shields says her own experience taught her that life is not a mountain to be climbed, but more like a novel with a series of chapters.
Carol Shields was always passionate about biography, both in her writing and her reading, and in 2001 she published a biography of Jane Austen. For Shields, Austen was among the greatest of novelists and served as a model: Jane Austen has figured out the strategies of fiction for us and made them plain. In 2002, Jane Austen won the coveted Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction. A similar biographical impulse lay behind the two Dropped Threads anthologies Carol Shields edited with Marjorie Anderson; their contributors were encouraged to write about those experiences that women are normally not able to talk about. 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, Shields explained in an interview.
Shields spoke often of redeeming the lives of people by recording them in her own 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 1998, Shields was diagnosed with breast cancer. Speaking on her illness, Shields once said, It s made me value time in a way that I suppose I hadn t before. I m spending my time listening, listening to what's going around, what's happening around me instead of trying to get it all down. In 2000, Shields and her husband Don moved from Winnipeg to Victoria, where they lived until her passing on July 16, 2003, from complications of breast cancer, at age 68.
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| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780525454588 |
| ISBN 10 | 0525454586 |
| Title | Month by Month a Year Goes round |
| Author | Carol Diggory Shields |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 1998-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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