Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Rec. #199 (abbrev.): Dressing Up for the Carnival


What: Carol Shields, collection of short stories, day in the life, meteorologists, narrative theory, mirrors, hotel room, biographer, steering wheel muff, hyperverbal compulsion, keys, book tour, window tax, flatties, curious strands of asceticism

Representative quote: ". . . for the first time she comprehends who her brother is, that deep-voiced stranger whose bedroom is next to her own. Today, for a minute, she is her brother. She is Ralph Eliot, age seventeen, six feet tall, who later this afternoon will make a dazzling, lazy touchdown, bringing reward and honor to his name, and hers."

Also: More Carol Shields, in novel form, with The Box Garden (Rec. #146).

1 comment:

  1. this story is lame i have to do it for my exit project presentation... so dry.... smfh

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