Beloved of readers and writers alike, Carol Shields was a formidable creative force. The author of dozens of books, she won a Pulitzer Prize and an Orange Prize, a Governor General’s award, and many other honours and recognitions. And this extraordinary writer’s work continues to inspire lovers of language from around the world.
Carol Shields: Evocation and Echo gathers together a bouquet of literary responses. Critics, friends, and fellow writers from North America and Europe here respond to the writing of Carol Shields. Their observations, augmentations, and creative interventions make for a collection that pays homage to Shields, but nonetheless possesses its own distinctive flavour. Her magnificent words continue to reverberate, evoking laughter and memory, and echoing her perceptive eloquence.
Carol Shields: Evocation and Echo is Volume 13 of the book series Canada Cahiers, edited by the Association for Canada Studies in the Netherlands (ACSN, Studiegenootschap Canada), https://acsn.nl/.
Reviews
Linda Quirk in Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010), 181-182
Acknowledgements ix
Aritha van Herk
Introduction: Potluck 1
Conny Steenman-Marcusse
Introduction: Pleasure 7
Margaret Atwood
Carol Shields, who Died Last Week, Wrote Books that were full of Delights 11
Sara Cassidy
Calling My Mother 17
Carol Shields
Boy Waking Up 20
Sara Cassidy
After the Tsunami, December, 2004 21
Carol Shields
Two Old Friends Who Arrived at Dawn 22
Sara Cassidy
My Mother Arriving at Dawn 23
Joan Clark
The Man Who Loved Mary Swann 25
Marjorie Anderson
Miranda’s Readings 33
Gunilla Florby
Malvern Pudding: Thoughts on Rereading The Stone Diaries 41
Alex Ramon
Gertrude, The Fourth 47
Elizabeth Hay
Readers are an Unruly Lot 51
Isabel Huggan
Remembering Carol 53
Conny Steenman-Marcusse
Below and Behold 59
Gudrun Björk Gudsteinsdóttir
Notes Recovered from a Rhyming Dictionary 69
Susan Swan
Mary Swann: The Mystery Solved 73
Blanche Howard
Of Friendship and Carol Shields 77
Janice Kulyk Keefer
That Malvern Pudding 81
Anne Giardini
A Wood, 2009 87
Charlotte Sturgess
Moving On 91
Peter Oliva
Carol Shields, Dogs and Mischief 101
Christl Verduyn
Fool’s Gold 107
Aritha van Herk
Debris 113
Marsha Hanen
Feminist Musings and Unless 123
Martin Levin
Carol’s Kindness 131
Jane Urquhart
A Generous Spirit 135
Carol Shields
The Writing Life 139
By Carol Shields 145
