" Unless you re lucky, unless you re healthy, fertile, unless you re loved and fed, unless you re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair. " Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her ...
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" Unless you re lucky, unless you re healthy, fertile, unless you re loved and fed, unless you re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair. " Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her 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, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta s wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta s voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour. Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, "Unless" will stand with "The Stone Diaries" in the canon of Carol Shields s fiction."
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Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 0679311793. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Light rubbing on edges. Crease to d/j at spine, small stain on bottom edge of back d/j.; 7.40 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 321 pages.
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0679311793. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Light rubbing to d/j.; 7.40 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 321 pages.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0679311793. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. DJ has some shelf wear.; 7.40 X 5.50 X 1.20 inches; 321 pages.
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. 0679311793. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls, NY-customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Creasing to edges of dust jacket, and some scuffing and indentations to surface of DJ. Some staining to inside of DJ. Creasing to inside flaps of DJ. Bumping to book spine.; 7.399999992452000 X 5.499999994390000 X 1.199999998776000 inches; 321 pages.
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