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"Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced -novel, radio drama, play, book of stories. So I had a good sense of the span of her work and also her evolution as a stylist. But the key reason I wanted to make a book focusing on her life and work is that we were friends." -Eleanor Wachtel This book strikes the right balance between intimate accounts and literary analysis. It opens with reminiscences by close friend Eleanor Wachtel, which are followed by a study of Shields' poetry by her daughter and grandson, then by various aspects of her fiction, including a detailed examination of her plays. It closes with reminiscences by four close friends: Jane Urquhart, Joan Clark, Wayson Choy and Martin Levin. The 23 contributors offer new insights, new theories, and new perspectives about Shields' illuminating career. Only one piece-her obituary written by Margaret Atwood-has been previously published.
Contents
Introduction David Staines To The Lighthouse Margaret Atwood Art is Making: Carol Shields in Conversation and Correspondence Eleanor Wachtel The Square Root of a Ticking Clock: Time and Timing in Carol Shields's Poetry and Prose Anne Giardini and Joseph Giardini All that "below the surface" Stuff: Carol Shields's Conversational Modes Coral Ann Howells Guilt, Guile, and Ginger in Small Ceremonies ElizabethWaterston Revisiting the Sequel: Carol Shields's Companion Novels Wendy Roy Sarah Binks, Pat Lowther, and the Satirical Gothic Turn in Carol Shields's Swann: A Mystery Cynthia Sugars Assembling Identity: Late Life Agency in The Stone Angel and The Stone Diaries Patricia Life Male Pattern Bewilderment in Larry's Party John Van Rys Departures, Arrivals: Canada/U.S. Migration and the Trope of Travel in the Fiction of Carol Shields Alex Ramon "To Be Faithfull to the Idea of Being Good": The Expansion to Goodness in Carol Shields's Unless Margaret Steffler Narrative Pragmatism: Goodness in Carol Shields's Unless Tim Heath Shields's Guerrilla Gardeners: Sowing Seeds of Defiance in a Middle-Class World Shelley Boyd Cool Empathy in the Short Fiction of Carol Shields Marilyn Rose The "Perfect Gift" and the "True Gift": Empathetic Dialogue in Carol Shields's "A Scarf" and Joyce Carol Oates's "The Scarf" ElizabethReimer Prepositional Domesticity Aritha van Herk Grand Slam: Birthing Women and Bridging Generations in Carol Shields's Play Thirteen Hands Nora Foster Stovel Archives as Traces of Life Process and Engagement: the Late Years of the Carol Shields Fonds CatherineHobbs The Voices of Carol Shields Joan Clark The Clarity of Her Anger Jane Urquhart My Seen-Sang, Carol Shields: A Memoir of a Master Teacher Wayson Choy Carol Shields Martin Levin