Series: Canada Cahiers 13 |
ISBN-13: 9789077922514 |
Publication year: 2009 |
Publication type: Book |
Pages: IX, 146 |
Cover: Softcover |
Format: 15 x 22.5 cm |
Price excl. VAT: €18.85 |
Price incl. VAT: €20.55 |
Beloved of readers and writers alike, Carol Shields was a formidable creative force. e 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. Contents 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 Reviews Linda Quirk in Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010), 181-182.
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