Unless (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Carol Shields
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 2000-2001
- Setting: Orangetown and Toronto, Ontario
- Principal Characters: Reta Winters, Tom, Norah, Danielle Westerman, Arthur Springer
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Homelessness or homeless people, Mothers, Parents and children, Middle classes, Twenty-first century, Feminism, Storytelling, Women, Canada or Canadians, Bereavement or grief, 2000’s
- Locales: Toronto, Canada
In Unless (2002), Carol Shields’s tenth novel, she tackles some of her familiar subjects—family relationships, the importance of writing and storytelling, and finding one’s place in the challenging modern world—but places them in the larger framework of women’s understanding of their place in that same milieu. Though Shields’s work often contains strong female characters, she rarely makes direct or strident feminist statements. In Unless, however, Shields deviates from her standard fare by including a very angry message about women’s treatment in a...
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