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Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of light summertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness."
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Ontario, Toronto, Canada, Bloor Street, Honest Ed's, Nathan Phillips Square, OrangetownShowing 11 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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Unless: A Novel
2009, Harper Perennial
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Unless
2003, Fourth Estate
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Unless: A Novel
2003, Fourth Estate
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Unless
2002-05, PerfectBound
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"It Happens THAT I am going through a period of great un happiness and loss just now."
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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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