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Small ceremonies, Carol Shields

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Small ceremonies, Carol Shields

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Small ceremonies

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electronic resource.

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dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Carol Shields

Summary

The superb first novel from the author of The Stone Diaries , winner of the Governor General's Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Judith Gill is a well-respected biographer who desperately wants to write fiction. When she joins her academic husband on sabbatical in Birmingham, she finds on the shelves of their rented flat the notes of a failed novelist. With considerable guilt, Judith decides to plagiarize one of the ideas and brings it home to Canada to work on. Frustrated by the creative process but determined to be more imaginative, Judith attends writing classes and later discovers that her tutor, suffering from writer's block, has ripped off 'her' idea. Once again, Shields focuses her sharp gaze on the small ceremonies of life in this novel of rare intelligence and wit

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