Startle and Illuminate
Carol Shields on Writing
Shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision and wit, Startle and Illuminate is a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that is destined to become as valued and essential as Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life.
An essential work from one of Canada's finest writers, Startle and Illuminate stands as a reflection of Carol Shields' devotion to the writer's craft. Drawn together by her daughter and grandson from decades of correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, Startle and Illuminate helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about the craft: Why do we…
$22.00
August 15, 2017
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