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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 9781574533521, Audio Cassette, Audio Literature, 2001

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9780670889211 9780670889211, Hardcover, Penguin Group USA, 2000

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9780864923547 9780864923547, Audio Cassette, Goose Lane Editions, 2002

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9780141001913 9780141001913, Paperback, Penguin Group USA, 2001

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9780679310211 9780679310211, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 2000

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9780754042716 9780754042716, Hardcover, Thorndike Pr, 2000

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9780754042723 9780754042723, Paperback, Thorndike Pr, 2000

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9780786227921 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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