Various Miracles : - Hardcover

Shields, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857022491 ISBN 13: 9781857022490

Publisher: Fourth Estate, 1994

Synopsis

A collection of short stories by the author of "The Stone Diaries" which was a runner up for the 1993 Booker Prize. In these stories Carol Shields illuminates the moments when ordinary people face extraordinary circumstances - wild coincidences, declarations of love, startling 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: Fourth Estate
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1857022491
• ISBN 13: 9781857022490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 243