

Unless
Author: Carol Shields
Narrator: Joan Allen
Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/06/2006
Categories: Fiction
Author: Carol Shields
Narrator: Joan Allen
Unabridged: 7 hr 14 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/06/2006
Categories: Fiction
Carol Shields was born in Chicago and lived in Canada for most of her life. She is the author of three short story collections and eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize -- winning The Stone Diaries and Larry’s Party, winner of the Orange Prize.
Joan Allen has been nominated for three Academy Awards for her roles in The Contender, Nixon and The Crucible. She has starred in numerous other films, including Searching for Bobby Fischer and The Ice Storm. Ms. Allen has had two Tony nominations, winning for her debut Broadway performance in Burn This.
Compulsively readable, this main character comes from a very long, proud lineage of other literary protagonists who get totally fucked over by their offspring. Although it doesn't come close to the pathos & articulation thereof of, say, Lionel Shriver's "We Need to Talk About Kevin", nor the titan-i......more
UPDATE May 2016: Just found out this is going to be a movie, starring Catherine Keener as Reta! It will probably play the Toronto Film Festival in the fall. Looking forward to it! *** In Carol Shields’s Unless, Reta Winters, a happy, middle-aged novelist and translator, a wife and mother of three chil......more
You wouldn't expect it from her, but Carol Shields has written a naughty book. Put your yellow highlighter down: There's no sex, but the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Stone Diaries" is doing something indecorous here -- ribbing our notions of grief, even snickering at what inspires us. Her la......more