Dressing Up for the Carnival
Dressing Up for the Carnival by Carol Shields is a reissue published by Penguin Publishing Group on May 1, 2001. This collection of 224 pages presents a series of short stories that explore the complexities and absurdities of human life through the lens of everyday experiences. The narratives feature characters who transform themselves through costumes and roles, revealing deeper insights into their identities and relationships.
Readers will find a rich tapestry of themes woven throughout the stories, including the exploration of personal transformation and the nuances of daily life. In one tale, a man dons his wife’s nightgown, while another story depicts a couple facing chaos due to a meteorological strike. Shields captures the extraordinary within the ordinary, offering a compassionate observation of the diverse realities people create for themselves. This edition invites readers to reflect on the carnival of life and the myriad ways individuals express their true selves.
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A bestselling collection of short stories from the author of The Stone Diaries (winner of the Pulitzer prize) and Larry’s Party (winner of the Orange prize)
All over town people are putting on their costumes; X slips into his wife’s lace-trimmed night gown and waltzes around his bedroom; Tamara is no longer the dull clerk receptionist when she wears that yellow skirt, she evolves into a stunning creature exuding passion and vitality. In ‘Weather’ a couple’s life is thrown into utter chaos when The National Association of Metereorologists go on strike – what will they wear? What will they eat? In ‘Soup du Jour’ a young boy contemplates life, the cracks in the pavement and his mother’s soup-making.
Each story encapsulates the human spirit, its diversities, complexities and absurdities. Shields observes with compassion the carnival that goes on in each of our lives and the realities that we create for ourselves. Carol Shields’ second collection of short stories celebrates the extraordinary details that are found in ordinary, everyday lives.
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