Unless
Lieferzeit: Bezug 3-5 I
ISBN-13:
9780007137695
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.03.2003
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Carol Shields
Gewicht:
229 g
Format:
196x129x24 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Dazzling novel from Carol Shields, author of 'The Stone Diaries', winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and 'Larry's Party', winner of the Orange Prize.
'Breathtaking...a masterpiece.' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail
Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'Goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. 'Unless' is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.
All her life Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness with a loving family and growing success as a writer. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world to sit on a street corner, uncommunicative but for a sign around her neck bearing one word, "GOODNESS".
Ein kluger und humorvoller Roman über den Zustand unserer modernen Gesellschaft. Nominiert für den Man Booker Prize 2002.