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Original Title:	Unless
ISBN:	0007154615 (ISBN13: 9780007154616)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.carol-shields.com/unless.html
Setting:	Canada
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2002), Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002), Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2002), Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (2003)

Unless

Carol Shields

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.63 | 12520 Users | 1053 Reviews

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Compulsively readable, this main character comes from a very long, proud lineage of other literary protagonists who get totally fucked over by their offspring. Although it doesn't come close to the pathos & articulation thereof of, say, Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin", nor the titan-in-decay tableau which is Philip Roth's "American Pastoral"--"Unless" is way more playful, more accessible. It is the same old story, though. &, unless anything happens to me, I will definitely get my hands on every single thing Carol Shields has written or will write!!

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Title	:	Unless
Author	:	Carol Shields
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Fourth Estate paperback edition (US)
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	2003 by Fourth Estate (first published 2002)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada

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UPDATE May 2016: Just found out this is going to be a movie, starring Catherine Keener as Reta! It will probably play the Toronto Film Festival in the fall. Looking forward to it!***In Carol Shieldss Unless, Reta Winters, a happy, middle-aged novelist and translator, a wife and mother of three children, discovers that her 19-year-old daughter has dropped out of university and is panhandling on the streets of Toronto holding a sign that reads Goodness. That one-sentence synopsis, while accurate,

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." - George EliotUNLESS by Carol Shields is the book chosen for our Book Club to discuss the first week of April. Although I have heard of American-born, Canadian novelist Carol Shields, this is the first and only book by her that I have read. UNLESS is the last novel she wrote."UNLESS is the

Unless by Carol Shields has been my third novel in a row written from the perspective of a self-analytical, self-critical and perhaps self-obsessed female narrator, the other being by Margaret Drabble and Anne Enright. Maybe Carol Shields drew the short straw, because I felt that Reta, the writer-narrator of Unless, internalised everything, so much so, in fact, that the other characters in the book became no more than projections of themselves within her. Maybe that was part of the point.

A perfectly normal, healthy and congenial nineteen-year-old young woman who grew up in a closely-knit and nurturing well-to-do family suddenly quits university, her family and her boyfriend to panhandle in a street corner of downtown Toronto.The novel is the youngsters mothers account of her experiences in dealing with the shocking loss of her lovely eldest daughter. She makes a desperate attempt to come up with possible reasons for her derelict daughters inconceivable action. Being a translator

''It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.'' Meet Reta Winters: translator and author of "light" fiction, doctor's wife, mother of three teenage daughters. Reta lives one hour outside of Toronto in a small town called Orangetown. Her family are close-knit and loving, and she is content in her comfortable life in her large and beautiful home. Reta is working with Danielle Westerman, a formidable Holocaust survivor whose memoirs, which Reta translates,

This is another of the books that was shortlisted for the Booker prize in 2002, which is the year chosen for the latest historic shortlist project in The Mookse and The Gripes group.This is a quiet but rather impressive book. On the surface not much happens. The narrator Reta Winters is a writer and translator, happily married with three daughters. The book follows her as she comes to terms with the strange behaviour of her eldest daughter, who has dropped out of university and now begs at a

At first sight Unless is a simple story, somewhat dated in its telling, making an (by the standards of 2017) unfashionable commentary on the joys of homemaking (by women).The narrative is rather deeper than that, though, and cuts to the core of family hurt and upheaval if a loved child goes off the rails. Carol Shields also reflects deeply and frequently on the difficulties, for women particularly, in trying to make a real and lasting difference in their lives."My nineteen year old doomed to