Happenstance: The Husband's Story - The Wife's Story
by Carol Shields | Women's Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0586092242 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0586092242 Global Overview for this book
Registered by lmn60 of Spotswood, Victoria Australia on 9/29/2014
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amazon.com review...
'A compassionate, funny, multi-layered work about the elusive nature of history. With dazzling deftness Shields demonstrates the alienation innate in the most loving relationships between the sexes. Taken as one story or two, this is a remarkable, perceptive and painfully accurate work that yields more with each reading.' Sunday Times 'An instinct for the patterns of everyday speech, a willingness to ferret out psychological nuances and a gift for investing her characters with the appearance of a living, breathing reality. Shields has a generous and unblinking sense of the complexity of forces which draw people to one another.' Jonathon Coe, Guardian 'A celebration of marriage as historical accident, it makes a delightful portrait of a partnership, full of quirky humour between two people who are at once familiars and strangers to each other.' Antonia Bremner, The Times 'Shields is an acute recorder of contemporary mores. This novel resounds with a humanity and generosity that is truly memorable.' Kevin Loader, Daily Telegraph 'The single biggest pleasure, though, remains Shield's prose, at once dense and duplicate. Its great strength has always been its ability to capture small moments and make them important.' Literary Review
amazon.com review...
'A compassionate, funny, multi-layered work about the elusive nature of history. With dazzling deftness Shields demonstrates the alienation innate in the most loving relationships between the sexes. Taken as one story or two, this is a remarkable, perceptive and painfully accurate work that yields more with each reading.' Sunday Times 'An instinct for the patterns of everyday speech, a willingness to ferret out psychological nuances and a gift for investing her characters with the appearance of a living, breathing reality. Shields has a generous and unblinking sense of the complexity of forces which draw people to one another.' Jonathon Coe, Guardian 'A celebration of marriage as historical accident, it makes a delightful portrait of a partnership, full of quirky humour between two people who are at once familiars and strangers to each other.' Antonia Bremner, The Times 'Shields is an acute recorder of contemporary mores. This novel resounds with a humanity and generosity that is truly memorable.' Kevin Loader, Daily Telegraph 'The single biggest pleasure, though, remains Shield's prose, at once dense and duplicate. Its great strength has always been its ability to capture small moments and make them important.' Literary Review
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