A Celibate Season
Originally published in 1991, this remarkable collaboration came about when Carol Shields and her friend Blanche Howard decided to tell two sides of the same story. Carol wrote the man's version and Blanche the woman's.
A Celibate Season is the story of what happens when Jocelyn and Charles, who have been married for years, are faced with a possible ten-month separation. In order to economize, they choose to write to each other rather than use the telephone. Through their letters, we follow the evolution and eventually the breakdown of communication. As the months progress, we begin to see two very distinct views of this time apart. Their "season of celibacy," as they initially joked, is proving to be more of a…
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April 28, 1998
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.
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Unless
Carol Shields
Startle and Illuminate
Anne Giardini and Nicholas Giardini, eds.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields with an introduction by Penelope Lively
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Susanna Moodie, Afterword by Carol Shields
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Carol Shields
Jane Austen
Carol Shields
Dropped Threads 2
Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Carol Shields
Dressing Up for the Carnival
Carol Shields
Dropped Threads
Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Larry's Party
Carol Shields