- Paperback: 376 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada (April 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143052268
- ISBN-13: 978-0143052265
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #523,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'"A Memoir of Friendship" is a dialogue of grace and generosity...surprisingly gripping...' -- Quill & Quire
'"A Memoir of Friendship" is a significant achievement and a landmark book...the correspondence between Howard and Shields is fascinating....' -- Globe and Mail --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
'"A Memoir of Friendship" is a significant achievement and a landmark book...the correspondence between Howard and Shields is fascinating....' -- Globe and Mail --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
A Memoir of Friendship is a rich collection of the letters Shields and Howard exchanged from 1975 to 2003. Carol Shields took her place on the world literary stage when she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Stone Diaries. Blanche Howard, 22 years older than Carol and herself a published, award-winning author, became Shields's mentor and confidante.Written with humour and insight, this window into their daily lives explores their friendship, their disappointment and joys, their ambitions, and their thoughts on other writers and the craft of writing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An Interesting Collection of Belles Lettres,
By Ian Gordon Malcomson (Victoria, BC) - See all my reviews (HALL OF FAME) (TOP 10 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields & Blanche Howard (Hardcover)
This book was loaned to me by a friend who had recommended it over coffee a couple of months ago. All he said at the time was that as a collection of letters, it offered some very unique insights into the life and times of the Canadian writer, the late Carol Shields. As I am not a great fan of letters as a literary genre and not being overly impressed with Shields' work as a novelist, I took this voluminous book and placed it on a shelf in my study reserved for distant future reads. Well, I finally got around to reading it this week, and what a wonderful surprise! In the space of over three hundred pages covering thirty years, Shields and Howard reveal some very rich and dynamic qualities of their enduring friendship. One, they seemed to care enough about each other's writing experiences to be forever inquiring after them. Two, they came across as very humble people who enjoyed reading, writing and critiquing about some of the great adventures, mysteries and controversies of life. Three, the many letters between these two writers spilled out into their private lives in genuinely personable ways. Both liked to travel and meet famous people; both were married to self-absorbed men who still managed to find time to encourage their literary pursuits; and both suffered through the often lonely ordeal of facing death from opposite ends: one as the dying, the other as the friend. The letters ooze with moments of triumph, sorrow, fear, and creative reflection. This body of writing also provides some very intriguing insights into Canadian life in the eighties and nineties as Canadian women became more actively established as writers in the mould of Atwood, Calwood, and Munro. If these two are anything to go by, women certainly came into their own during this period by charting their own course through life. Great read!
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An Epistolary Treasure Trove,
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This review is from: A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields & Blanche Howard (Hardcover)
A Memoir of Friendship -- the thirty-year exchange of letters between two writers and two friends -- is a treasure trove for any lover of the written word, providing compelling and intimate glimpses into the inner lives of these two prominent and much loved writers, through good times...and difficult ones. I couldn't put it down.
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Boring read,
By ihath "ihath dot com" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Memoir of Friendship: The Letters Between Carol Shields & Blanche Howard (Hardcover)
I expected a few insights about writing, the life of a writer ...etc . Instead it full of niceties and mundane exchanges. Total waste of time.
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