Carol Shields dies at 68

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

She did most of her important work here in Winnipeg. She loved it here but the winters got to be a bit much.

― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 July 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

That's sad. I think she had something like dignity or decency. I have a stolid feeling that slightly quietly she wrote rather more about really very important things than many noticeably noisier people.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 17 July 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

sad

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 17 July 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a shame. I'll re-read Larry's Party in her honour.

― Matt (Matt), Thursday, 17 July 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

i had to read the stone diaries for one of my undergrad English classes (in '95). i expected to hate it, but instead i loved it for its unassuming humor and style in depicting the life of an ordinary woman (from birth through death). and i echo what PF said about ms. shields writing quietly about important things.

rip.

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 18 July 2003 03:10 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

I have only just discovered her, and now I find out she is dead?

On impulse, I took a book called "Unless" out of the library. It seemed superficially light and yes, ordinary, but packed a huge emotional and maybe even philosophical whallop to it. The kind of book where you get to the end, and immediately start again, flipping through the pages to see how it all fits together. So quiet, so unassuming, and yet feeling so *important*.

I am now going to read everything she ever wrote.

― hüzün (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 15 August 2009 07:21 (sixteen years ago)

Stone Diaries is the one that won the Pulitzer.

― jaymc, Saturday, 15 August 2009 14:29 (sixteen years ago)

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