Unless
Author(s): Carol Shields
I'm not interested, the way some people are, in being sad. I've had a look, and there's nothing down that road. Well now What about the ripping sound behind my eyes, the starchy tearing of fabric, end to end; what about the need I have to curl up my knees when I sleep?
For all of her life, 44 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 to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's 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.
Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shields' remarkably supple prose. Unless, a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proves her mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.
General Information
- :
- : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- : Harper Element
- : 0.268
- : 01 March 2003
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Carol Shields
- : New edition
- : English
- : good
- : 336