Startle and illuminate : Carol Shields on writing

Summary: FP 7,500(CDN) For Shields's devoted readers, STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE reveals her own thoughts on why we read - to be the other, to touch and taste the experience of the other; and why we write - for the joy of the making, to reimagine our world, to discover patterns and uncover forms that echo our realities as well as interrogate them, to imagine alternate worlds. This essential work, drawn by her daughter and grandson from her voluminous correspondence with other writers, essays, notes, comments, criticism and lectures, is a last gift from one of our finest novelists meant for both aspiring and established writers. Canadian author

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