Unless a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0061135461 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 9780061135460 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : Harper Audio, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 7:14:06. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Joan Allen. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 103992 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Teenage girls -- Fiction Mentally ill -- Fiction Ontario -- Fiction |
Genre: | DOWNLOADABLE AUDIOBOOK. Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
For all of her days, Reta Winters has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime.' This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved oldest daughter, Norah, drops out of life to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads 'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Carol Shields' remarkably supple prose. Unless, a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proves her mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.