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Informationen zum Autor Carol Shields’s novels include Unless ; Larry’s Party , winner of The Women’s Prize; The Stone Diaries , winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Republic of Love ; Happenstance ; and Mary Swann . Dressing Up for the Carnival and Various Miracles , collections of short stories, were later published as The Collected Stories . Brought up in Chicago, Shields lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003. Klappentext Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: her eccentric husband, her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet. While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. As their mother's wedding approaches, both sisters must come to terms with the paths they have chosen. Originally published as two companion novels: Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden. Zusammenfassung Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prize-winning Carol Shields’ tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life.
