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Book Description
In Dressing Up for the Carnival, Carol Shields distills her characteristic wisdom, elegance, and insouciant humor in twenty-two luminous stories. A wealth of surprises and contrasts, this collection ranges from the lyricism of "Weather," in which a couple's life is thrown into chaos when the Continue
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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Fast-food fiction never quite hits the spot
Dressing Up for the Carnival Carol Shields Fourth Estate £13.99, pp198 This is a book about drag, about the ways people remake themselves, what gets revealed and what hidden in the process. There is the childless woman pushing a pram down the street, ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 224 Pages
- Edition: Reissue
- ISBN-10: 0141001917
- ISBN-13: 9780141001913
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Pub date: May 01, 2001
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and eBook
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Sapphire and steel
Dressing Up for the Carnival Carol Shields Fourth Estate, £15.99, 249pp Carol Shields is frequently praised for her ability to celebrate the ordinary; nowhere was this more in evidence than in the critical response to her last novel, the Orange Prize ... (read full critics)