Small ceremonies [Import] [Paperback]

Carol Shields (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Totem (1978)
• ISBN-10: 000222013X
• ISBN-13: 978-0002220132
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shields is terrific!, December 22, 1999

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Wilson Stone (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Small Ceremonies (Mass Market Paperback)

The first Carol Shields book I read was "The Stone Diaries" which of course deserved all its awards. Then "Larry's Party" which, though it was somewhat ignored by the literary press, was every bit as enjoyable as "Diaries." By then I had realized that Shields is one of our greatest living novelists. I picked up "Small Ceremonies" knowing it was nearly 25 years old -- her first published novel -- and expecting it to be less than those two later books. I was wrong. "Small Ceremonies" is simply a terrific book. Buy it. Read it.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Magic Read, October 8, 2000

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Mollymook (BALMAIN, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Small Ceremonies (Mass Market Paperback)

Small Ceremonies is a book to get lost in. Carol Shields has a way of making honouring everyday rituals, conversations and events and presenting them to the reader in a way that makes us savour her characters and stories. Like all Shields' novels, poems and plays, the irresitable Small Cermeonies, leads to contstant searching for more Carol Shields works. To publishers - devout readers want out of print works reprinted!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A look at how we live day to day not always knowing., January 9, 1997

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This review is from: Small Ceremonies (Mass Market Paperback)

This book was an interesting look at how someone goes about discovering who they are later in life. A biographer who can only look at other people's lives through items or other people's writings. Her complaint of not having the chance to actually ever have met her latest subject makes for a nice ending when she lets another writer know what she does about his facade.

Carol Shields writing is always clear, concise and tells a touching story. If you haven't read Small Ceremonies or Stone Diaries, you are missing some of the best fiction writing I have experienced in a while.