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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Carol Shields and Blanche Howard collaborated on this epistolary novel that narrates the separation of a couple due to her taking a positon in Ottawa. Her unemployed husband stays in B.C. with their two teenaged children, and they communicate through letters with an occasional phone call and visit. It is interesting to see the breakdown in communication expressed through their writing. Misunderstandings, slights and arguments becoming increasingly frequent as they weather their "celibate season." I would happily read a shopping list written by Carol Shields, one of my favorite authors. (  )1   pdebolt | Aug 1, 2008 |  Two award winning Canadian writers have collaborated to write this novel, the story of a married couple who separate for a period of time written as a series of letters between the husband and wife. Good forward by Blanche Howard explaining their collaboration. (  ) herschelian | Jan 18, 2006 |  no reviews | add a review
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Originally published in 1991, this remarkable collaboration came about when Carol Shields and her friend Blanche Howard decided to tell two sides of the same story. Carol wrote the man's version and Blanche the woman's.
A Celibate Season is the story of what happens when Jocelyn and Charles, who have been married for years, are faced with a possible ten-month separation. In order to economize, they choose to write to each other rather than use the telephone. Through their letters, we follow the evolution and eventually the breakdown of communication. As the months progress, we begin to see two very distinct views of this time apart. Their "season of celibacy," as they initially joked, is proving to be more of a challenge than either had imagined and tests the strength and commitment of their marriage.
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