The Box Garden - Softcover

Shields, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140251367 ISBN 13: 9780140251364

Publisher: Penguin, 1996

Synopsis

Charleen, a divorced woman attending her widowed mother's second wedding, makes startling discoveries about other family members attending the reunion and achieves a new understanding of herself and her own life. Reprint.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Charleen Forrest's husband has left her. Gone not only from her own life, but apparently from the face of the earth. Charleen is left with his name and their marvellously uncomplicated son, Seth. She also has a fair talent for poetry and a job on the National Botanical Journal which brings her in touch with the mysterious Brother Adam... a man with a passion for silence and grass.

Charleen's piercing gift of observation is wonderfully balanced with her intermittent bouts of all-too-familiar feelings of incompetence that are as poignantly observed as her gifts for survival.

About the Author:

Carol Shields (1935-2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short-story collections includeThe Republic of Love, Happenstance, Swann, The Orange Fish, Various Miracles, The Box Garden, and Small Ceremonies (all available from Penguin).

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140251367
• ISBN 13: 9780140251364
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224