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More of What We Aren't Told
The idea for Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told came up between Carol Shields and longtime friend Marjorie Anderson over lunch. It appeared that after decades of feminism, the “women's network” still wasn't able to prevent women being caught off-guard by life. There remained subjects women just didn't talk about, or felt they couldn't talk about. Holes existed in the fabric of women's discourse, and they needed examining.
They asked thirty-four women to write about moments in life that had taken them by surprise or experiences that received too little discussion, and then they compiled these pieces into a book. It became an instant number one bestseller, a book clubs' favourite and a runaway success. Dropped Threads, says Anderson, "tapped into…
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April 8, 2003
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
A Celibate Season
Carol Shields and Blanche HowardMarjorie Anderson has a Ph.D. in literature and taught in the English Department and Faculty of Management at the University of Manitoba for twenty years. During that time she was awarded the University’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and was chosen to teach in a number of international programs, including an MBA program in the Czech Republic. Now, through her company, Wordwise, she works as a communication consultant and professional editor. She is the seventh of eight children born to Ásdis and Thorsteinn Anderson, Icelandic-Canadian fishers, farmers and storytellers who farmed in the hamlet of Libau, on the edges of Lake Winnipeg. Anderson and her husband, Gary, live in Winnipeg and take delight in their four daughters, four sons-in-law and…
Dropped Threads 3
Marjorie Anderson
Dropped Threads 2
Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson