The Republic of Love - Softcover

Shields, Carol Diggory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140149902 ISBN 13: 9780140149906

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1993

Synopsis

A story of the persistence of love in modern times follows Fay, a fickle folklorist falling hard for her neighbor Tom, an all-night disc jockey three times divorced. 10,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

About this title

Book Description:

Carol Shields wrote dazzling, haunting stories of lives just like ours, turning our interior worlds into beautiful labyrinths—a writer worthy of comparison to fellow Canadian greats Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.

From the Inside Flap:

With a viewpoint that shifts as crisply as cards in the hands of a blackjack dealer, Carol Shields introduces us to two shell-shocked veterans of the wars of the heart.  There's Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man.  And right across the street there's Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who has focused a little too intently, having married and divorced three times.

Can Fay believe in lasting love with such a man?  Will romantic love conquer all rational expectations?  Only Carol Shields could describe so adroitly this couple who fall in love as thoroughly and satisfyingly as any Victorian couple and the modern complications that beset them in this touching and ironic book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0140149902
• ISBN 13: 9780140149906
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 384