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The Box Garden

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

By Carol Shields

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Paperback $16.00

Aug 27, 1990 | ISBN 9780394221021

Ebook $11.99

Sep 28, 2011 | ISBN 9780307364128

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    About The Box Garden

    Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, bus drivers… men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who feel sorry for her." Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud.

    About The Box Garden

    Until events run wildly out of hand, Charleen Forrest manages to cope with the uncertainties of a failed marriage, trying to live her own life and raise a son on her frugal income. She is not unaware of the hazards: "family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, bus drivers… men on the make who want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby), friends who feel sorry for her." Her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud.

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    Also by Carol Shields

    The Stone Diaries
    Jane Austen
    Dropped Threads 2
    Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
    Dressing Up for the Carnival
    See all books by Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    Product Details

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage Canada
    Aug 27, 1990 | 220 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780394221021

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage Canada
    Sep 28, 2011 | 220 Pages | ISBN 9780307364128

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    Praise

    "Her sentences and subjects swerve in a matter of words from the poetic to the colloquial, uniting the dazzling and the ordinary, the domestic and the cosmic."
    —Joan Barfoot, London Free Press

    "A shrewd and skillful storyteller."
    —Chicago Tribune

    "Carol Shields is a name to set beside Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro."
    —Anita Brookner

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