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Carol Shields
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born
June 02, 1935
in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States
died
July 16, 2003
gender
female
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The Stone Diaries
   3.68 avg rating — 10,272 ratings
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published
1993
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39 editions
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Unless
3.56 avg rating — 4,100 ratings
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2002
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37 editions
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Larry's Party
3.61 avg rating — 2,113 ratings
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published
1997
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24 editions
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The Republic of Love
3.71 avg rating — 706 ratings
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published
1992
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13 editions
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Jane Austen
3.69 avg rating — 702 ratings
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published
2001
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14 editions
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Swann
3.64 avg rating — 542 ratings
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2011
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12 editions
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Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition
3.61 avg rating — 480 ratings
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published
1980
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13 editions
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Small Ceremonies
3.63 avg rating — 331 ratings
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published
1976
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10 editions
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The Box Garden
3.57 avg rating — 318 ratings
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published
1977
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Dropped Threads
by Carol Shields, Marjorie Anderson  3.49 avg rating — 211 ratings
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2001
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“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.”
― Carol Shields
― Carol Shields
“nothing she did
or said
was quite
what she meant
but still her life
could be called a monument
shaped in a slant
of available light
and set to the movement
of possible music”
― Carol Shields
or said
was quite
what she meant
but still her life
could be called a monument
shaped in a slant
of available light
and set to the movement
of possible music”
― Carol Shields
“In one day I had altered my life; my life, therefore, was alterable. This simple axiom did not call out for exegesis; no, it entered my bloodstream directly, as powerful as heroin. I could feel it pump and surge, the way it brightened my veins to a kind of glass. I had wakened that morning to narrowness and predestination and now I was falling asleep in the storm of my own free will.”
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
― Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
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