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Dressing Up for the Carnival
by Carol Shields
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This volume of Carol Shields' short stories includes "Absence," in which a writer must function even though a crucial typewriter key is missing, and "The Scarf," about another writer who goes shopping for a particularly beautiful scarf for her daughter.
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9781574533521,
Audio Cassette,
Audio Literature,
2001
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9780670889211,
Hardcover,
Penguin Group USA,
2000
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9780864923547,
Audio Cassette,
Goose Lane Editions,
2002
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9780141001913,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
2001
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9780679310211,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
2000
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9780754042716,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
2000
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9780754042723,
Paperback,
Thorndike Pr,
2000
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9780786227921,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
2000
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Publisher Notes
The theme of identity and guises run through this collection of twenty-two short stories.
Media Reviews
"[A] marvelous collection....Shields loves exploring the workings of narrative, the character of language...."
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