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These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair. Intimate and insightful yet never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and the differences between the sexes that bring life — and a sense of isolation — into even the most loving of relationships.
About this Author
CAROL SHIELDS (1935-2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and Swann. Shields's work has been translated into 33 languages.
Format: Trade paperback
Pages: 400
Publisher: Random House of Canada
Published: 1997-04-07
Reviews
"Shields delivers a tour de force -- a marriage is the culmination of a million tiny moments and she strings them together with intense cumulative power." --Publisher's Weekly
"A perfect little gem of a novel."--The Toronto Star
"A delightful portrait of a partnership, full of quirky humour between two people who are at once familiar and strangers to each other ... a celebration of marriage as historical accident." --The Times (London)
"Carol Shields writes with delicacy and perception." --The Montreal Gazette
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