[The Canadian Shields 01] • The Canadian Shields by Nora Foster Stovel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half-Title Page Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph Books by Carol Shields Contents Foreword: “‘A Soap Bubble Hovering over the Void’: A Tribute to Carol Shields,” by Margaret Atwood Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: The Canadian Shields, or How an American Writer Became an Award-Winning Canadian Author Part 1: Carol Shields’s Previously Unpublished Stories and Essays

Stories

Protein Dust A Message from Beyond The Golden Boy, or Some Things Only Happen Once

Essays

Gifts Christmas Interruptus Coming to Canada Did Anything Much Happen to You in the Fifties? Writers Are Readers First Books that Meant The Reader-Writer Arc The Writer’s Second Self The Writing Life Making Words/Finding Stories My Back Pages Women’s Voices in Literature Women and the Short Story The Feminine Line The New Canadian Fiction Crossing Over Writers’ Gender Swapping The Unity of Our Country Address to University of Winnipeg Graduands University of Winnipeg Convocation Luncheon Address University Leadership and Social Change Idealism and Pragmatism in Two Novels of Sara Jeannette Duncan The Two Susanna Moodies The Healing Journey

Part 2: Carol Shields’s Previously Published but Uncollected Essays

Essays

I’ve Always Meant to Tell You: A Letter to My Mother At Home in Winnipeg Living at Home Sunday Dinner, Sunday Supper My Favourite Place—At Home in Deepest France Travelwarp A Legacy of Stone Others What’s in a Picture Rare Petals A Purse of One’s Own Heidi’s Conundrum Parties Real and Otherwise The Best Teacher I Ever Had . . . The Visual Arts A Delicate Balancing Act Divorce Introduction to Duet Carol Shields’s Booker Prize Report Foreword to The Stone Diaries Afterword to Life in the Clearings Introduction to Mansfield Park Afterword to Dropped Threads Afterword to Dropped Threads 2

Conclusion Afterword: “Carol’s Haunting Voice,” by Lorna Crozier Notes Works Cited