The Republic of Love

Carol Shields

ISBN 10: 0140863575 ISBN 13: 9780140863574

Publisher: Penguin Audio, 1996

Synopsis

A story of the persistence of love in modern times follows Fay, a fickle folklorist, who falls hard for her neighbor, Tom Avery, host of an all-night radio talk-show three times divorced. Read by Carol Shields. Book available.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Audio
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0140863575
• ISBN 13: 9780140863574
• Binding: Audio Cassette
• Language: English