A Celibate Season - Carol Shields, Blanche Howard

One and a half Canadian authors have written this book. The first name on the cover is Carol Shields, she’s the half one, born and brought up in Chicago, she’s lived in Canada since 1957, the second name is Blanche Howard, a ‘full’ Canadian from Vancouver. This book isn’t the first with more than one author (‘Yeats Is Dead!’ was written by 15(!) Irish writers) and is therefore not the greatest sensation since the beginning of literature as the publishing house Fourth Estate from London seems to think. The book starts with a Foreword by Blanche Howard in which she tells the reader on 8 1/2 pages how the book was ...  Read the complete review