Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Happenstance

Happenstance( )
Author: Shields, Carol
ISBN:978-1-84115-468-8
Publication Date:Apr 2003
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Imprint:Fourth Estate
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.95
Book Description:

'The beautiful irony of "Happenstance" is that its novels are both bound together and held apart by the strength of the marriage they describe.' Rupert Christiansen, Harpers and Queen

Book Details
Pages:400
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.9 x 19.8 x 2.3 cm
Book Weight:0.322 Kilograms
Author Biography
Shields, Carol (Author)
Carol Shields is a writer and critic who was born on June 2, 1935 in Chicago and grew up in Illinois. Shields resided in Canada, where she was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, and a professor at the University of Manitoba.

Shields's first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published the week of her 40th birthday. Her other works of fiction include The Orange Fish, Larry's Party, Various Miracles, and The Stone Diaries, which received the Governor's General Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shields has also been awarded the Canadian Bookseller's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the CBC Prize for Drama. She died on July 16, 2003.

030



Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.