Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told
by Carol Shields (Editor), Marjorie Anderson (Editor)
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"A beautifully woven tapestry of perspectives on the silences that women still keep. Dropped Threads offers a community of voices that readers -- not just women -- will want to hear ..."--Page 4 of cover.Tags
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An astute telling of the ordinary events that make up our lives. The writing is told so compellingly and with such insight, that one wonders, "How could I miss the significance of this in my own life". Other reviewers have nailed it by writing that Carol had "...an exceptional talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the mundane, and the dramatic in the domestic."
This is a great collection of essays by Canadian women, but I think I preferred Dropped Threads 2 a bit more. Some of the essays in this collection are funny, some sad, some shocking, and some are a bit boring, but overall, it is a wonderful read.
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Carol Shields is a writer and critic who was born on June 2, 1935 in Chicago and grew up in Illinois. Shields resided in Canada, where she was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, and a professor at the University of Manitoba. Shields's first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published the week of her 40th birthday. Her other works of fiction show more include The Orange Fish, Larry's Party, Various Miracles, and The Stone Diaries, which received the Governor's General Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shields has also been awarded the Canadian Bookseller's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the CBC Prize for Drama. She died on July 16, 2003. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told
- Original publication date
- 2001
- Disambiguation notice
- edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, Fiction and Literature
- DDC/MDS
- 818.6080892870971 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American miscellaneous writings in English 21st Century
- LCC
- PR9194.5 .W6 .D76 — Language and Literature English English Literature English literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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- English
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