Happenstance

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World International Publishing, Apr 21, 2016 - Fiction - 512 pages
Happenstance is a unique novel, its events taking place in one week, telling two stories. Both recount the same events, from a wife's perspective and from her husband's. Both stories are written in a third-person stream-of-consciousness style, but they differ in style to highlight the difference between the male and female voice. Intimate, insightful and never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and of those differences between the sexes that brings life - and a sense of isolation - into the most loving relationships.

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About the author (2016)

Carol Shields is a writer and critic who was born on June 2, 1935 in Chicago and grew up in Illinois. Shields resided in Canada, where she was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, and a professor at the University of Manitoba. Shields's first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published the week of her 40th birthday. Her other works of fiction include The Orange Fish, Larry's Party, Various Miracles, and The Stone Diaries, which received the Governor's General Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shields has also been awarded the Canadian Bookseller's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the CBC Prize for Drama. She died on July 16, 2003.

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