Dressing Up for the Carnival - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Shields, Carol
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0670889210
- ISBN 13
- 9780670889211
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About This Item
New York: Viking. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670889210 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Stone Diaries"; Carol Shields’s novel, Dressing Up for the Carnival, is a story of family, love, and loss. set during the carnival season, the novel follows the lives of the wealthy and the not-so-wealthy alike as they prepare for the big day. While some families spend hours in the salon, others rely on costume stores to help them create the perfect costume. Ultimately, the carnival is a time to celebrate life and all its facets, and this is especially true for the characters in the novel.; 8vo .
Synopsis
In Dressing Up for the Carnival , Carol Shields distills her characteristic wisdom, elegance, and insouciant humor in twenty-two luminous stories. A wealth of surprises and contrasts, this collection ranges from the lyricism of "Weather," in which a couple's life is thrown into chaos when the National Association of Meteorologists goes on strike, to the swampy sexuality of "Eros," in which a room in a Parisian hotel on the verge of ruin is the catalyst for passion, to the brave confidence of "A Scarf"-new for this collection-which chronicles the realities of a fledging author's book tour. Playful, graceful, acutely observed, and generous of spirit, these stories will delight her devoted fans and win her new converts as well.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17996
- Title
- Dressing Up for the Carnival - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Shields, Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0670889210
- ISBN 13
- 9780670889211
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Cons Strang
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Short Fiction;
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