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A Celibate Season

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Carol Shields, Blanche Howard

  • Fourth Estate

  • Paru le : 19/08/2010
In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both... > Lire la suite
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In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which give us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. A CELIBATE SEASON is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, (Jock and Chas) and their self-imposed separation of ten months when Jock accepts a job in a city more than three thousand miles away from her family.
As "breadwinner" and suddenly "single" again Jock is confronted with local politics, loneliness and advances from the opposite sex. Meanwhile back at home, Chas, an unemployed architect, is now a "single parent" who has to reacquaint himself with his teenage children, Mia and Greg, learn to run a household and shift his career priorities. Throw in an attractive young housekeeper, a mother-in-law who enjoys her wine, a touch of teenage angst, some unexpected home renovations and a disastrous Christmas dinner and you have modern family life.

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  • Date de parution : 19/08/2010
  • Editeur : Fourth Estate
  • ISBN : 978-0-00-740468-1
  • EAN : 9780007404681
  • Format : ePub
  • Nb. de pages : 240 pages
  • Caractéristiques du format ePub
    • Pages : 240
    • Protection num. : Contenu protégé

À propos des auteurs

Carol Shields's novels include Unless; Larry's Party, winner of The Women's Prize; The Stone Diaries, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Republic of Love; Happenstance; and Mary Swann. Dressing Up for the Carnivaland Various Miracles, collections of short stories, were later published as The Collected Stories. Brought up in Chicago, Shields lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003. Blanche Howard is the author of three previous novels, including 'The Manipulator', which won the Canadian Bookseller's Award.
Howard has also adapted 'A Celibate Season' as a play, which was a finalist in the Canadian National Theatre Playwriting Competition in 1989.
A Celibate Season
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