by Carol Shields · Random House of Canada, Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679308560
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«Happenstance» is the literary fiction novel by Carol Shields, published by Random House of Canada in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Jack and Brenda Bowman spend a weekend apart. He stays home with two unruly teenagers, domestic crises and doubts about his worth as a historian; she, travelling alone, experiences a mix of emotions in an unfamiliar city and flirts with the idea of an affair. A portrait of marriage and of the differences between men and women.
The volume brings together two novels: 'The Wife's Story' and 'The Husband's Story'. The work was originally published in 1980; this 1997 edition is the third.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs interested in marriage, domestic life and the differences between men and women.
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.
