Various Miracles (King Penguin S.) - Softcover

Shields, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140118373 ISBN 13: 9780140118377

Publisher: Penguin, 1989

Synopsis

Twenty-one stories depict ordinary people encountering extraordinary situations, including coincidences and revelations

About this title

Review:

‘Carol Shelds’s short stories are full of sentences you could almost sing... [her] sentences transmute base metal into gold.’
Independent

‘Shields’s stories are spiked by moments of supernatural transcendence.’
Victoria Glendinning

‘Shields’s outlines of lives, witty and generous, are alive with a fragile incandescence.’
Independent on Sunday

‘Carol Shields manages in a particularly original way to turn water into wine, transfiguring the mundane with meaning.’
The Times

From the Back Cover:

Slyly and perceptively, Carol Shields surveys the whole range of life’s surprises, the quirks of chance and coincidence, the setbacks and improviations. The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life: the housewife who transforms herself into a successful saleswoman; the special intimacy that binds a group of strangers at an evening class; the ideal husband who is really an arrogant bore and the prosaic woman who becomes a poem.

”Carol Shield’s short stories are full of sentences you could almost sing..[her] sentences transmute base metal into gold.”
INDEPENDENT

”Shields’s stories are spiked by moments of supernatural transcendence.”
'Victoria Glendinning'

”Shields’s outlines of lives, witty and generous, are alive with a fragile incandescence.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

”Carol Shields manages in a particularly original way to turn water into wine, transfiguring the mundane with meaning.”
THE TIMES

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0140118373
• ISBN 13: 9780140118377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192