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Carol Shields

    2. červen 1935 – 16. červenec 2003

    Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian author who explored the intricacies of everyday life with profound insight. Her work often delves into the inner lives of her characters, examining their relationships, memories, and the quiet dramas that shape their existence. Shields possessed a remarkable ability to render the ordinary extraordinary, using precise and evocative language to uncover the hidden complexities within seemingly simple narratives. Her exploration of themes such as identity, family, and the passage of time resonated deeply with readers, establishing her as a significant voice in contemporary literature.

    Carol Shields
    Larry's Party
    Mister Sandman
    Collected Stories
    Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp
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    Deníky tesané do kamene
    • Deníky tesané do kamene

      • 260 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      Román je fiktivním životopisem americké ženy v průběhu 20.století, který zachycuje mnoho rovin, úhlů a pohledů na její život. Život hlavní hrdinky románu Daisy Goodwillové se odvíjí jednak z roviny jejího vlastního pohledu, jednak jej sledujeme očima jejích přátel, partnerů i dětí. Román je ságou typické americké rodiny, vzešlé z chudých přistěhovalců, kteří se v průběhu let vypracovali v úspěšné a vážené občany, je vyprávěním o obyčejných strastech života, které se přetaví do poklidné moudrosti vysokého věku hrdinky. S jemnou ironií, obrovskou moudrostí, se vší tragikou i humorem před námi autorka rozvíjí obrazy a děje plné barev, vůní a prchavých záchvěvů dávno zapomenutých vzpomínek. zdroj: mlp.cz

      Deníky tesané do kamene
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    • Ledaže

      • 259 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      Psychologický román z rodinného prostředí od kanadské autorky líčí zlomový okamžik v životě stabilní rodiny poté, kdy dospělá dcera bez vysvětlení odchází z domova. Hrdinkou je čtyřicetiletá začínající spisovatelka a renomovaná překladatelka díla význačné francouzské feministky, manželka lékaře a matka tří dospívajících dcer. Rodina žije šťastně a poklidně, hrdinka se věnuje své profesi, domácnosti a běžným společenským povinnostem, ovšem jen do okamžiku, kdy ze dne na den odchází bez vysvětlení nejstarší dcera z domova a skončí jako žebračka u nádraží v Torontu. Ochromená rodina se snaží najít vysvětlení, dívka ale odmítá jak návrat domů, tak jakýkoliv kontakt a zoufalá matka se marně snaží najít příčinu. Protože nemá jinou možnost, jak se vyrovnat se situací, snaží se v díle překládané autorky najít možný impuls dceřina jednání, ve své vlastní knize se pak snaží aplikovat společenské aspekty současného systému na životní krizi své dcery. Dívčin nedobrovolný návrat přinese rodině úlevu, neřeší ale její budoucnost citlivého člověka, vystaveného tlakům civilizace s narušenou mezilidskou komunikací. zdroj: mlp.cz

      Ledaže
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    • Collected Stories

      • 593 stránek
      • 21 hodin čtení

      For the first time all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories -- some previously unpublished -- are gathered together in one volume. volumes: Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and Dressing Up for the Carnival. Some of the stories in these individual collections have never before been published in the UK, and we add to these wonderful shorter fictions a chapter from Carol Shields' last, unfinished, novel Segue. that won so many readers to her prize-winning novels such as The Stone Diaries and Unless.

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    • Mister Sandman

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      Barbara Gowdy's outrageous, hilarious, disturbing, and compassionate novel is about the Canary family, their immoderate passions and eccentricities, and their secret lives and histories. The deepest secret of all is harbored in the silence of the youngest daughter, Joan, who doesn't grow, who doesn't speak, but who can play the piano like Mozart though she's never had a lesson. Joan is a mystery, and in the novel's stunning climax her family comes to understand that each of them is a mystery, as marvelous as Joan, as irreducible as the mystery of life itself. In its compassionate investigation of moral truths and its bold embrace of the fractured nature of every one of its characters, Mister Sandman attains the heightened quality of a modern-day parable.

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    • Larry's Party

      • 339 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, irony and tenderness. Carol Shields gives us, as it were, a CAT scan of his life, in episodes between 1977 and 1997 that flash back and forward seamlessly. As Larry journeys toward the millennium, adapting to society's changing expectations of men, Shields' elegant prose makes the trivial into the momentous. Among all the paradoxes and accidents of his existence, Larry moves through the spontaneity of the seventies, the blind enchantment of the eighties and the lean, mean nineties, completing at last his quiet, stubborn search of self. Larry's odyssey mirrors the male condition at the end of our century with targeted wit, unerring poignancy and faultless wisdom.

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    • Swann

      • 416 stránek
      • 15 hodin čtení

      Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987. Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

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    • A celebration of love in its many guises, The Republic of Love recounts the heartfelt tale of two of life's unlucky lovers: Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on any one man; and, right across the street, Tom, a popular radio talk-show host who s been through three marriages and divorces in his search for true happiness.

      The Republic Of Love
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    • Two stories from a marriage in crisis: thewife's story and the husband's story. The setting issuburbia, the time frame a week spent apart. She goes toa quilting convention where she has an affair, he stayshome to mind the kids and discuss manhood with a friendwho has been abandoned by his wife

      Happenstance
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    • Bestselling, award-winning novelist writing about one of the most popular and enduring English novelists of all time. 'Splendid ... a gem' LITERARY REVIEW

      Jane Austen
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