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An edition of Unless (2002)

Unless

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Reta Winters has a loving family, good friends, and growing success as a writer of light fiction. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university to sit on a street corner, wearing a sign that reads only 'goodness'. As Reta seeks the causes of her daughter's retreat, her enquiry turns into an unflinching, often very funny meditation on society and where we find meaning and hope. Unless is a dazzling and daring novel from the undisputed master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.

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Fourth Estate
Language
English
Pages
320

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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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2010-07, Harper Perennial
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2009, Harper Perennial
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2006-06-06, HarperAudio
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2005, Calmann-Lévy
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2005, Piper
in German
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2005, Harper Perennial
in English
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2005, LGF
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2004, Mladá Fronta
in Czech
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2004, Norsteds
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2004 January 5, HarperCollins Audio
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2004, Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
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2003, Vintage Canada
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2003, Pax Forlag
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2003, Fourth Estate
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2003, Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava
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2003, Calmann-Lévy, CALMANN-LEVY
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2003, Fourth Estate
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2003, ISIS Large Print
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2003, Temas e Debates
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2003 July, Tandem Library
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2003, Uitgeverij de Geus
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2003, Fourth Estate
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2003, Vintage Canada
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2002, HarperCollins
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2002 April 30, HarperAudio
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2002-05, PerfectBound
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2002, Fourth Estate
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2002, Fourth Estate
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2002, Sound Library
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2002, Fourth Estate
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2002, Ted Smart
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2002, Thorndike Press
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Copyright Date
2002

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
320p.
Number of pages
320

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26445972M
ISBN 10
0007137699
ISBN 13
9780007137695
OCLC/WorldCat
52282773
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0007137699
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0007137699
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0007137699
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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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