Happenstance The Wife's Story / The Husband's Story / Two Novels in One About a Marriage in Transition
Portrays the changes in a marriage, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly the partners themselves, when the loving wife goes away for a short time and the happily married husband has a mid-life crisis
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin,
1994.
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| Summary: | Portrays the changes in a marriage, involving new evaluations of friends, family, career associates, and particularly the partners themselves, when the loving wife goes away for a short time and the happily married husband has a mid-life crisis |
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| Item Description: | Consists of 2 novels: Happenstance, the husband's story, which was previously published under title Happenstance and Happenstance, the wife's story which was previously published under title A fairly conventional woman. Second novel on inverted pages. Added t.p.: Happenstance, the wife's story. |
| Physical Description: | 193, 197 p. ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0140179518 : PAP |
| Author Notes: | Shields's first novel, Small Ceremonies, was published the week of her 40th birthday. Her other works of fiction include The Orange Fish, Larry's Party, Various Miracles, and The Stone Diaries, which received the Governor's General Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Shields has also been awarded the Canadian Bookseller's Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the CBC Prize for Drama. She died on July 16, 2003. (Bowker Author Biography) |
