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Dressing Up for the Carnival - a collection of short stories by Carol Shields

I'm not sure why I've never read Shields before. It was a mistake, one I shal have to rectify, now that I've actually read something she's written.

Shields writes prose stories the way Mary Pratt paints. Perfectly rendered visions of everyday life, so clear and realistic that they become magical in their realism.

Shields uses her words, first to give us the outer image of her subjects, and then to let us have a further, perfect vision of their souls, who they are when they are not dressed up for the show.

I will be reading more of Carol Shields's work now. That's the good thing about books - if you miss them the first time, they're still there waiting for you to discover them when the time is right.

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