Carol Shields on her novel Unless

Date
2002-04-07
Interviewer: Wachtel, Eleanor
Host: Wachtel, Eleanor
Interviewee: Shields, Carol
Producer: Rabinovitch, Sandra
Producer: Stinson, Mary (Producer)
Producer: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Description

Writers & Company host Eleanor Wachtel in an intimate conversation with Canadian writer Carol Shields. In 1993, Carol Shields became an "overnight success"... almost 20 years after the publication of her first novel. Her novel The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Governor-General's Award for Literature. Here, she talks about her upcoming novel, Unless.

Physical description
1 online resource (1 audio file (52 min., 08 sec.))
Location
Victoria (B.C.)
Subject
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. English Networks
CBC Books
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Wachtel, Eleanor. Writers & company
Authorship
Authors, Canadian--Interviews
Shields, Carol
Shields, Carol. Unless
Mothers and daughters--Fiction
Women Authors--Fiction
Teenage girls--Fiction
Mentally ill--Fiction
Ontario--Fiction
Austen, Jane, 1775-1817
Shields, Carol--Childhood and youth
Shields, Carol. Swann
Shields, Carol. Small ceremonies
Mortality
Genre
Discussion
Interviews
Literary readings
Sound recordings
Type of resource
Sound recording non-musical
Language
English
Part of
Writers & Company
Identifier
WritersAndCo-2002-04-07
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