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Carol Shields

Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

June 02, 1935

Died

July 16, 2003

Website

http://www.carol-shields.com/

Genre

Literature & Fiction

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Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her successful 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award. Her novel Swann won the Best Novel Arthur Ellis Award in 1988. ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 81,413 ratings · 5,284 reviews · 86 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Stone Diaries 3.88 avg rating — 38,977 ratings — published 1993 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unless 3.63 avg rating — 16,103 ratings — published 2002 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Larry's Party 3.73 avg rating — 8,606 ratings — published 1997 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen: A Life 3.68 avg rating — 4,333 ratings — published 2001 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Republic of Love 3.74 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 1992 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swann 3.70 avg rating — 2,176 ratings — published 1987 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Happenstance: Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition 3.73 avg rating — 1,428 ratings — published 1980 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Small Ceremonies 3.74 avg rating — 1,133 ratings — published 1976 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Box Garden 3.65 avg rating — 1,154 ratings — published 1977 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Collected Stories of Carol Shields 4.13 avg rating — 758 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Carol Shields (?)

“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, The Republic of Love

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“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
― Carol Shields

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“This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.”
― Carol Shields, Unless

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Our August retreat will focus on three or four selected works of a particular author. This is the poll to select that author. Poll will be open for a week.

Barry Unsworth

3 votes, 27.3%

Geraldine Brooks

3 votes, 27.3%

Carol Shields

2 votes, 18.2%

Sarah Waters

2 votes, 18.2%

Joyce Carol Oates

1 vote, 9.1%

Doris Lessing

0 votes, 0.0%

Iris Murdoch

0 votes, 0.0%

Peter Ackroyd

0 votes, 0.0%

11 total votes

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