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STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE
Anne Giardini Nicholas Giardini
Carol Shields On Writing
Shimmering with her unique style, sense, humour, vision and wit, STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE is a book of advice and reflections on writing by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields that is destined to become as valued and essential as Stephen King's On Writing and Anne Lamott's Bird by Bird
In the course of her extraordinary career, which included the novels The Stone Diaries, Larry's Party,
The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields was
unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page written the day before, then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book was finished. Now in her own words, as clear and straightforward as a glass of water, comes STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE, the best possible guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. 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. It helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: such as why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done.
For Shields's devoted readers, STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE reveals her own thoughts on why we readto be the other, to touch and taste the experience of the other; and why we writefor the joy of the making, to re-imagine our world, to discover patterns and uncover forms that echo our realities as well as interrogate them, to imagine alternate worlds. It is a beautiful legacy.
ANNE GIARDINI, Carol Shields's daughter, has published two novels, The Sad Truth about Happiness and Advice for Italian Boys and is working on a third. Anne is an executive, a board director and a lawyer, and is the 11th chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
NICHOLAS GIARDINI is one of Carol Shields's 12 grandchildren. A committed reader, he enjoys books that explore character and selfperception. Eleven when his grandmother died, Nicholas remembers her as a warm and intense presence. While carrying out research for this book in the archives, reading letters, lectures and notes, he came to know his grandmother as a person, and began to understand more fully the role she played in the world of ideas, and in the lives of her friends, fellow writers and readers.
The Republic of Love and Unless, as well as poetry, short stories, biography and plays, Carol Shields was
unfailingly encouraging of other writers. She read and commented on her friends' manuscripts. She taught writing classes and she spoke and wrote on the craft of writing. Her own discipline rarely faltered. Her daily practice was to write a new page, then edit the page written the day before, then repeat, until, after a year or so, her book was finished. Now in her own words, as clear and straightforward as a glass of water, comes STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE, the best possible guide to the writing process, from conception to publication. 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. It helps answer some of the most fundamental questions about writing: such as why we write at all, whether writing can be taught, what keeps a reader turning the pages, and how a writer knows when a work is done.
For Shields's devoted readers, STARTLE AND ILLUMINATE reveals her own thoughts on why we readto be the other, to touch and taste the experience of the other; and why we writefor the joy of the making, to re-imagine our world, to discover patterns and uncover forms that echo our realities as well as interrogate them, to imagine alternate worlds. It is a beautiful legacy.
ANNE GIARDINI, Carol Shields's daughter, has published two novels, The Sad Truth about Happiness and Advice for Italian Boys and is working on a third. Anne is an executive, a board director and a lawyer, and is the 11th chancellor of Simon Fraser University.
NICHOLAS GIARDINI is one of Carol Shields's 12 grandchildren. A committed reader, he enjoys books that explore character and selfperception. Eleven when his grandmother died, Nicholas remembers her as a warm and intense presence. While carrying out research for this book in the archives, reading letters, lectures and notes, he came to know his grandmother as a person, and began to understand more fully the role she played in the world of ideas, and in the lives of her friends, fellow writers and readers.
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