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Unless

After 44 years, Reta Winters she is discovering the meaning of loss for the first time when her beloved eldest daughter drops out of life to sit on a street corner. A major literary event from the author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer-Prize winner, "The Stone Diaries, " this is a novel of love and letting go.

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  • "Unless : a novel"@en
  • "Unless"@he

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  • "After 44 years, Reta Winters she is discovering the meaning of loss for the first time when her beloved eldest daughter drops out of life to sit on a street corner. A major literary event from the author of the international bestseller and Pulitzer-Prize winner, "The Stone Diaries, " this is a novel of love and letting go."@en
  • "Reta Winter is a successful wife, mother, writer and freind until one day."
  • "Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness.""@en
  • "Reta Winters life as an author, mother and wife starts to crumble when her eldest daughter takes to sitting silently on a street corner wearing a sign that says "Goodness.""
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."@en
  • "An author's life is turned upside-down when her beloved oldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a corner wearing a sign that only says "goodness.""@en
  • "An author's life is turned upside-down when her beloved oldest daughter drops out of school to sit on a corner wearing a sign that only says "goodness.""
  • "In the spring of Reta Winters' forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner. Reta tackles the mystery of her daughter's breakdown."
  • "Novelist Reta Winter's idyllic life is shattered when her eldest daughter abandons her life to sit on a gritty street corner with a sign reading "GOODNESS" around her neck, a situation that prompts Reta to uncover what drove her daughter to her new existence."
  • "Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness." The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors."@en
  • "At once the disturbing, ultimately consoling story of one family's loss and a searing portrait of life at the dawn of the 21st century, 'Unless' is a daring novel from the master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives."
  • "The breathtaking new novel from Carol Shields, winner of the Pulitzer and Orange Prizes. All her life, it seems to Reta Winters, she has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness. She has a loving husband, three bright daughters and supportive friends, and is experiencing growing success as a writer and translator. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university, family and loving boyfriend to sit on a street corner, uncommunicative but for a sign around her neck bearing one word, "GOODNESS". Rita is led into a desperate search for the causes of their daughter's retreat. No obvious explanation appears to fit. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in this journey through the life of an unforgettable woman."@en
  • "Reta Winters enjoys the useful monotony of happiness, a loving family good friends and a successful writing career until her placid existence cracks open as she searches for the cause of her beloved eldest daughter's desperation."
  • "Reta Winter's idyllic life is shattered when her daughter abandons her life to sit on a street corner with a sign reading "GOODNESS" around her neck, a situation that prompts Reta to uncover what drove her daughter to her new existence."@en
  • "Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness." The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors. --Publisher."@en
  • "Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of 'The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and 'Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize. 'Breathtaking...a masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'Goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. 'Unless' is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives."

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  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Roman canadien de langue anglaise"
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Kanadské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Translations"
  • "Romaner"@sv

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  • "가장가깝지만가장알수없는그녀 : 캐럴실즈장편소설"
  • "Bonté : roman"
  • "Unless"@en
  • "Unless"
  • "Deixar-ho tot"
  • "Deixar-ho tot"@ca
  • "Kajang kakkapchiman kajang alsu ŏmnŭn kŭnyŏ : K'aerŏl Silchŭ changp'yŏn sosŏl = The piano teacher"
  • "Unless a novel"@en
  • "Die Geschichte der Reta Winters Roman"
  • "Om inte"@sv
  • "Unless a novel"
  • "Bonté"
  • "Ela im ken"
  • "אלא אם כן"
  • "A meno che"
  • "Tenzij"
  • "A menos que"
  • "Norah, gyere haza!"
  • "Unless : a novel"
  • "Unless : a novel"@en
  • "Ellei"@fi
  • "Die Geschichte der Reta Winters : Roman"
  • "Ellei"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Unless : [a novel]"
  • "Ektos ki an--"
  • "Ledaže"
  • "Norah, gyere haza! : [regény]"@hu
  • "Hvis ikke"
  • "Osim ako"
  • "Dejarlo todo"
  • "Dejarlo todo"@es

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