Like so much else in the book, this sounds like an apologia for the orderliness of Carol Shields's own art.

"Unless," by Carol Shields of Canada was the only book from the last 40 years to break into the top 10.

Surely with a little more time I would have come up with something as important and beautiful as Carol Shields's "Unless."

ALL novelists worth their fictional salt can create fine characters; Carol Shields creates lives.

The maze has also been mentioned in Carol Shields' 'Larry's Party'.

Carol Shields was unable to write for the film adaption because of her declining health.

'Snake' is clearly the work of a powerful imagination," Carol Shields wrote here in 1997.

Carol Shields has explored the mysteries of life with abandon, taking unusual risks along the way.

And one comes to suspect that Carol Shields may also.

The result is an "engaging and graceful memoir," Carol Shields said here in 1995.