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Unless
Unless
Author: Carol Shields
“Unless you’re lucky, unless you’re healthy, fertile, unless you’re loved and fed, unless you’re offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair.” — Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. H...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780679311805
ISBN-10: 0679311807
Publication Date: 2003
Pages: 336
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Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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I'm just not into the books with tons of descriptions and excess words discussing things completely unrelated to the story. I don't need 3 pages to tell me what color the curtains were. I made it about 10 pages in before I finally gave up. I was so not into this book that I didn't even realize I'd left it behind at a restaurant until a few hours later.

If you enjoy the book versions of books like "White Oleander" you might enjoy this book. Although, I at least finished (and somewhat enjoyed) white Oleander despite all the excess.

The main character is an author and the book spent the entire first chapter detailing her curriculum vitae, story by story and book by book. I thought this was supposed to be about how this family dealt with having their daughter suddenly decide she wanted to live on the street and how it affected them, but in the 3 chapters I read that only seemed to serve as a side note to the main characters narcissism.


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