Happenstance (eBook)

Carol Shields (Autor)

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2020
552 Seiten
World Editions (Verlag)
978-1-64286-086-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage, told from the opposite perspectives of both husband and wife.

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These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband’s Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. In The Wife’s Story, Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair. Intimate and insightful yet never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage, and the differences between the sexes that bring life—and a sense of isolation—into even the most loving of relationships.

Autor

Carol Shields (1935–2003) was born in the United States, and emigrated to Canada when she was twenty-two. She is acclaimed for her empathetic and witty, yet penetrating insights into human nature. Her most famous novel The Stone Diaries was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along with the Governor General’s Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Happenstance was praised as her tour de force, masterly combining two novels in one. The international bestseller Mary Swann was awarded with the Arthur Ellis Award for best Canadian mystery, while The Republic of Love was chosen as the first runner-up for the Guardian Newspaper Fiction Prize. In 2020, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, a North American literary award dedicated to writing by women, was set up in her honor. Her work has been published in over thirty languages.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2020
• Vorwort: Margaret Atwood
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: A beautiful mind • Adam Haslett • A Million Little Pieces • Arthur Ellis Award • Back, After the Break • best books on mental illness • best books set in mental hospitals • best books set in mental institutions • best book sweden • best swedish author • Bipolar • Bipolar Disorder • bostrom knausgaard • Canada's Governor General's Award • Canadian • Carol Shields • Carol Shields Fiction Prize • Depression • ECT • electro convulsive therapy • electro shock • electro shock therapy • electro therapy • Elizabeth Strout • Everything Here Is Beautiful • family life • famous books sweden • famous swedish author • famous swedish book • Fiction • fiction mental illness • Girl Interrupted • Go Ask Alice • Guardian Newspaper Fiction Prize • Hannah Green • Happenstance • helios disaster • i know this much is true • Imagine Me Gone • I Never Promised You a Rose Garden • international literature • It’s Kind of a Funny Story • james frey • Joanna Trollope • Jonathan Coe • karl ove • Karl Ove Knausgaard • karl ove knausgaard ex • karl ove knausgaard fiance • karl ove knausgaard wife • Ken Kesey • Knausgaard • knausgaard divorce • knausgaard fiance • knausgaard marriage • knausgaard wife • linda bostrom • linda knausgaard • Margaret Atwood • marriage • Mary Swann • memoir mental hospital • memoir mental patient • Memory loss • Mental hospital • Mental Illness • mental institution • mental patient • Mira T. Lee • Motherhood • My Struggle • National Book Critics Circle Award • Ned Vizzini • nervous breakdown • novel set in mental hospital • novels set in mental institution • Old age • One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Osher Günsberg • Pulitzer Prize • severe depression • so much longing in so little space • Susanna Kaysen • Sweden • swedish • Swedish literature • Sylvia Nasar • Sylvia Plath • the bell jar • The Republic of Love • The Stone Diaries • translated literature • Wally Lamb • widowhood • wife karl ove knausgaard
• ISBN-10: 1-64286-086-7 / 1642860867
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64286-086-3 / 9781642860863