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Dressing Up for the Carnival

by Carol Shields
$10.90
Dressing Up for the Carnival
Dressing Up for the Carnival

Evocative vignettes exploring life's everyday masquerade.

"Dressing Up for the Carnival" will resonate with you like a collection of personal anecdotes, each revealing the nuanced transformation that comes with life's simple changes. Shields paints each character's ordinary existence with a palette of emotions that's bound to appeal to anyone who finds beauty in the trivial and revels in the quirks of humanity. This collection might just shift how you see the ordinary and inspire you to find your own carnival in the mundane.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Dressing Up for the Carnival

by Carol Shields
$10.90
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ISBN: 9780141001913
Authors: Carol Shields
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 2001-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Goodreads rating: 3.53
(rated by 708 readers)

Description

A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer Prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange Prize). All over town, people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed nightgown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt; she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In ‘Weather,’ a couple’s life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Meteorologists goes on strike – what will they wear? What will they eat? In ‘Soup du Jour,’ a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement, and his mother’s soup-making. Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities, and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields’ second collection of short stories celebrates the extraordinary details that are found in ordinary, everyday lives.
 

Evocative vignettes exploring life's everyday masquerade.

"Dressing Up for the Carnival" will resonate with you like a collection of personal anecdotes, each revealing the nuanced transformation that comes with life's simple changes. Shields paints each character's ordinary existence with a palette of emotions that's bound to appeal to anyone who finds beauty in the trivial and revels in the quirks of humanity. This collection might just shift how you see the ordinary and inspire you to find your own carnival in the mundane.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.