Small Ceremonies (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Shields, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0783818300 ISBN 13: 9780783818306

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1996

Synopsis

Judith Gill, a biographer, finds herself analyzing her childrens' developing lives and trying to understand her distant husband instead of living her own life

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:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0783818300
• ISBN 13: 9780783818306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279