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Winner of the Marian Engel Award: Passion, longing, regret, and transformation infuse these twelve tales by one of our most “shrewd and skillful” storytellers (Chicago Tribune)
“Milk Bread Beer Ice” is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old “Hazel” is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In “Today Is the Day,” the village women gather together for their annual ritual of planting blisterlilies. And “Family Secrets” travels to DeKalb, Illinois, and the First World War, as the narrator searches for a missing year in her mother’s life . . . and unearths a surprising connection to Ernest Hemingway.
From a group of musicians who discover they share more than classical “Chemistry” to an unhappily married couple who may get a second chance, this remarkable collection, like the ageless orange fish of the title story, is filled with the wonder and magic of everyday life.
“Milk Bread Beer Ice” is a road trip shared by a husband and wife who no longer communicate through meaningful dialogue. Fifty-year-old “Hazel” is forced to enter an alien workplace after the sudden death of her husband. In “Today Is the Day,” the village women gather together for their annual ritual of planting blisterlilies. And “Family Secrets” travels to DeKalb, Illinois, and the First World War, as the narrator searches for a missing year in her mother’s life . . . and unearths a surprising connection to Ernest Hemingway.
From a group of musicians who discover they share more than classical “Chemistry” to an unhappily married couple who may get a second chance, this remarkable collection, like the ageless orange fish of the title story, is filled with the wonder and magic of everyday life.
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Carol Shields wrote dazzling, haunting stories of lives just like ours, turning our interior worlds into beautiful labyrinths—a writer worthy of comparison to fellow Canadian greats Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.
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"Snatching profundity from the jaws of the banal is Shields' specialty...[her] extraordinary ability to find both mystery and meaning in the chaos of everyday life..." — Maclean's
"These are wonderful stories." — Books in Canada
"Shields is able to give some of the most complex accounts of human nature I've read in a short story." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Infused with a sly humour, these poignant stories revel in the ordinary, with a few side trips to the sublime… both moving and wry." -- Washington Post
"Reading [these stories] gives you a sense of art spilling over into life… Even the briefest and apparently arbitrary details of life seem incandescent." -- Toronto Star
"Shields is a sympathetic storyteller who brings her quirky, touching characters to exuberant life." -- New York Newsday
"A wise, expansive voice… the author turns normal everyday memories and events into poetic prophecy." -- Newsday
"These are wonderful stories." — Books in Canada
"Shields is able to give some of the most complex accounts of human nature I've read in a short story." — San Francisco Chronicle
"Infused with a sly humour, these poignant stories revel in the ordinary, with a few side trips to the sublime… both moving and wry." -- Washington Post
"Reading [these stories] gives you a sense of art spilling over into life… Even the briefest and apparently arbitrary details of life seem incandescent." -- Toronto Star
"Shields is a sympathetic storyteller who brings her quirky, touching characters to exuberant life." -- New York Newsday
"A wise, expansive voice… the author turns normal everyday memories and events into poetic prophecy." -- Newsday
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- PublisherOpen Road Media
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1480459852
- ISBN 13 9781480459854
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages200
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