Carol Shields

"...From June to August they choose to forget who they are, or at least what they look like, electing an annual season of non-reflectiveness in the same way other people put away their clocks for the summer or their computers or door keys or microwave ovens..."
(Carol Shields, Mirrors)


Although Carols Shields was born and brought up in the USA, she lived in Canada from 1957 until her death in 2003. She has been compared to Jane Austen, and she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her novel The Stone Diaries. I love her short stories and her book Unless.

Here she poses us this interesting question: how would you live without mirrors?


Mirrors

http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0997/shields/sstory.html

You can listen to a discussion about Carol Shields:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/openbook/openbook_20030817.shtml

And you can even watch Carol Shields talking about her novels:

http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/shi1int-1