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An edition of Unless (2002)

Unless

Unabridged edition

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  • ★★★★ 4.00 ·
  • 2 Ratings
  • 25 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime'. This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope.
--back cover

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Sound Library
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English

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Subjects
literary fiction, goodness, Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize winner, Literature, Psychological fiction, Teenage girls, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Women authors, Mentally ill, Domestic fiction, friends, women, American literature, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Ontario, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Large type books, Literary, Abridged Audio - Fiction/General, Fiction, general
People
Reta Winters, Norah Winters, Arthur Springer, Danielle Westerman
Places
Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Bloor Street, Honest Ed's, Nathan Phillips Square, Orangetown

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Cover of: Unless
Unless: A Novel
2009, Harper Perennial
Paperback in English - P.S. edition (7)
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Tenzij
2003, Uitgeverij de Geus
Hardcover in Dutch
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Unless
2003, ISIS Large Print
hardcover in English - Large print edition
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Unless: a novel
2003, Fourth Estate
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Bonté: roman
2003, Calmann-Lévy, CALMANN-LEVY
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Unless
2003, Fourth Estate
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Unless
2002, Sound Library
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Unless
2002, Fourth Estate
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Unless
2002, Fourth Estate
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Unless
2002-05, PerfectBound
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Published in
North Kingstown, RI, USA
Copyright Date
2002

Contributors

Narrator
Joan Allen

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Format
Audio CD
Dimensions
7.1 x 6.7 x 1.6 inches
Weight
13 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7811582M
ISBN 10
0792727460
ISBN 13
9780792727460
OCLC/WorldCat
51278747
amazon.co.uk_asin
0792727460
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0792727460
amazon.ca_asin
0792727460
Goodreads
474022

Work Description

Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.

Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.

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It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.
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February 20, 2019 Edited by JeffKaplan merge authors
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April 24, 2010 Edited by Open Library Bot Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs.
April 29, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record.