by Carol Shields · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857020885
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«The Box Garden» is Carol Shields's novel in the 1995 Fourth Estate edition (212 pages, in English).
The story follows Charleen Forrest, divorced and with a son, who tries to get by on a modest salary. Between family, her ex-husband, landladies and compassionate friends, her ironic gaze and powers of observation turn the everyday into a sharp and often funny narrative.
«The Box Garden» was originally published in 1977; the Fourth Estate edition appeared in London in 1995.
For readers of literary fiction who enjoy female protagonists, ironic humor and portraits of everyday life.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
