Unless
by Carol Shields
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Reta Winters is a successful novelist, Tom is a doctor, and they've been living together for over 20 years. Life has been good until Reta's daughter Norah leaves home and becomes a street person in Toronto. Carol Shields's novel--which she claims will be her last (she was suffering from terminal cancer when she wrote it)--is about not only family and its complexities, but the literary life and its intersection with what is real. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
Editions of Unless
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Perennial |
Date 2006 |
Price $1.41 |
 Used - Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.00 |
Very Good |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Harpercollins |
Date 2003 |
Price $1.00 |
Fine |
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Thorndike Pr |
Date 2002 |
Price $2.49 |
Fine |
Publisher Notes
Reta Winter's life is shattered when her eldest daughter drops out 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.
Media Reviews
"The philosophical questions don't emerge with the same brilliance as Shields's portrait of the writer or her modest claim for the importance of a female perspective on tragedy. Still, there's enough here to maintain her claim as one of our most gifted and probing novelists."
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