by Carol Shields · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586092248
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«Happenstance» is the work by Carol Shields that brings together «The Husband's Story» and «The Wife's Story», published by Flamingo in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Two novels that narrate the same five-day stretch in the life of a married couple: one from the perspective of Jack Bowman and the other from that of his wife Brenda, as both face changes. Each half reveals how gestures, routines, and the tensions of cohabitation are perceived differently depending on who tells them.
The work was originally published in 1980; this 1994 edition brings together two novels in inverted pages: the first appeared as «Happenstance» and the second as «A Fairly Conventional Woman».
For those who enjoy literary fiction focused on domestic life and on how two people can experience the same event in very different ways.
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.
