Unless: A Novel – Carol Shields

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Fourth Estate, 2003, Medium-format Paperback - Fiction - 320pp. ISBN 9780007137695.
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, Unless is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one familys anguish and healing, proving Shieldss mastery of extraordinary fiction about ordinary life.
For all of her life, forty-four-year-old Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light summertime fiction. But this placid existence is cracked wide open when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out of college to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads GOODNESS. Retas search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope.
[Shields is] unsparing as she explores the black holes of uncertainty in womens lives . . . these are the dark thoughts of an illuminating novel. Chicago Tribune
Nothing short of astonishing. The New Yorker
A thing of beautylucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations. Los Angeles Times
Like The Stone Diaries, which won Shields a Pulitzer Prize, and her tour de force follow-up novel, Larrys Party, Unless presents itself, almost instantly, as a story about ordinary lives. But then, through her sensitive observations and exacting prose, the author proceeds to flip them over and show us their uncommon depths . . . a fine novel. The Washington Post Book World

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