A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (and some correspondence), writer-broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel and her friend, author Carol Shields, touch on both the personal and the professional. Eleanor Wachtel first met Carol Shields in 1980; her first interview with Carol occurred in 1987, following the publication of Swann: A Mystery. They soon became friends, embarking on a correspnodence and conversations that would last her almost two decades. In this illuminating book, Eleanor Wachtel brings together her rich collection of interviews with Carol from that first occasion to Shields's death in 2003. Disarmingly direct, Carol Shields talks about her writing, language and consciousness, and her interest in "redeeming the lives of lost or vanished women," all the while touching on topics as diverse as feminism, raising children, the metaphorical search for a home, and the joys and griefs of everyday life. Carol Shields is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Stone Diaries. She also won the Governor General's Award for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-fiction, the Orange Prize, and numerous other awards. She was twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780864925824 0864925018
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.S514
- LCCN Item number
- Z48 2007eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (181 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00603390 (OCoLC)696032686 (CaOOCEL)420388
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Original Minds More Writers Company Writers Company Language in Her Eye The Expo Story 2
- Contents 7
- Preface 9
- Scrapbook of Carol 11
- Always a Book-Oriented Kid 29
- The early InTervIewS 1988 - 1993 29
- Letters 10 - 14 57
- The Arc of a Life 69
- Letter 18 89
- Art Is Making 91
- OnSTaGe FOr The humBer SChOOl FOr wrITerS TOrOnTO OCTOBer 1998 91
- Throttled by Astonishment 101
- DreSSInG uP FOr The CarnIval OnSTaGe aT The InTernaTIOnal FeSTIval OF auThOrS TOrOnTO OCTOBer 1999 101
- Letters 1 - 2001 121
- A Gentle Satirist 125
- Jane auSTen CarOlS hOme vICTOrIa marCh 2001 125
- Letters 2001 - 2002 145
- Ideas of Goodness 147
