Description
"Nothing short of astonishing." -- New Yorker
"A thing of beauty--lucidly written, artfully ordered, riddled with riddles and undergirded with dark layers of philosophical meditations." -- Los Angeles Times
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.
The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless, is a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proving Shields's mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.
Author: Carol Shields
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 01/03/2006
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.36w x 0.89d
ISBN13: 9780060874407
ISBN10: 0060874406
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Humorous | General