Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields

Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields

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Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields

The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries, winner of the Governor General's Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When she joins her academic husband on sabbatical in Birmingham, she finds on the shelves of their rented flat the notes of a failed novelist. With considerable guilt, Judith decides to plagiarize one of the ideas and brings it home to Canada to work on. Frustrated by the creative process but determined to be more imaginative, Judith attends writing classes and later discovers that her tutor, suffering from writer's block, has ripped off 'her' idea. Once again, Shields focuses her sharp gaze on the small ceremonies of life in this novel of rare intelligence and wit.
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ISBN 13 9780140251456
ISBN 10 0140251456
Title Small Ceremonies
Author Carol Shields
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 1996-01-01
Number of pages 194
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.