by Carol Shields · Fourth Estate · tapa dura · ISBN 9780679310211
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«Dressing Up for the Carnival» is Carol Shields's short story collection, published by Fourth Estate in hardback (256 pages, in English).
In the title story, the narrative jumps between characters dressing for the everyday carnival of life; other tales blend bittersweet eroticism, fantasy and routine. Shields explores the tacit agreements of marriage, loneliness and the desire to reinvent oneself with irony and compassion.
The collection comprises twenty-two stories, including «Eros» and «Flatties», and was published in 2000. Carol Shields was a Pulitzer Prize winner.
A work for readers of literary fiction and contemporary Canadian narrative.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
