- literary fiction, goodness, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner, Literature
Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.
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Contemporary, contemplative, prestige and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Carol Shields
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 291
- Publisher
- Sound Library, Thorndike Press, Harper Perennial
- Editions
- 43
- Language
- fin, cat, Dutch, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788020411501
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