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Mary Swann 

(Swann) 

by

Carol ShieldsMary Swann (1987)
(Swann)
A novel by Carol Shields

 
"Deft, funny, poignant, surprising, and beautifully shaped - in total command of itself and its language."
Margaret Atwood


Mary Swann, a sort of Canadian Emily Dickinson, submitted a paperbag full of poems to newspaper editor Frederic Cruzzi just hours before her husband hacked her to pieces. Who is Mary Swann? And how could someone in all ways completely isolated have produced these works of genius? The pedant misogynist and Mary Swann's biographer, Morton Jimroy is determined to prove that her work shows a debt to T S Eliot. But the local librarian, timid Rose Hindmarch, whose life up until now has held no excitement, know that Mary Swann only read trash and that the library didn't even have T S Eliot's work on the shelves. To stay in the limelight, however, she'll say whatever is required. Frederic Cruzzi tries to understand the motive. And he should know. Sarah Maloney, who made a name for herself as a young feminist scholar, is intent of discovering a clue to Mary Swann in the poet's domestic notebooks. But there is nothing there except the entirely mundane. Anyway, Sarah is coming to recognise a conflicting and powerful pull of domesticity in herself. Four flawed individuals, but all with some self knowledge, who find in Mary Swann the key to the fulfilment of their needs, but understand Mary Swann herself not at all. Perhaps only we the reader understand what there is to know, what it is possible to know.

 
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1998 : Board book
Title: SWANN
Author(s): CAROL SHIELDS
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July 1996 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 1860219861Title: Mary Swann (Reed Audio)
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-86021-986-1 / 9781860219863 (UK edition)
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
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March 1996 : Hardback
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-679-30771-0 / 978-0-679-30771-6 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House of Canada
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1996 : Hardback
Title: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-85702-592-X / 9781857025927 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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August 1990 : Hardback
Title: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-872180-02-7 / 9781872180021 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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July 1989 : Hardback
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-670-82822-X / 978-0-670-82822-7 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking Adult
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January 1987 : Hardback
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: NY: Viking
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1987 : Hardback
Title: Swann; a Mystery
Author(s): Carol. Shields
ISBN: 0-7737-2092-8 / 978-0-7737-2092-3 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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Paperback Editions

2007 : Paperback
Title: Mary Swann (Italian translation of Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: Voland
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February 2000 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 1841154202Title: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 1-84115-420-2 / 9781841154206 (UK edition)
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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February 1997 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0006550606Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-00-655060-6 / 978-0-00-655060-0 (UK edition)
Publisher: Flamingo
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1996 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0679307877Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-679-30787-7 / 978-0-679-30787-7 (USA edition)
Publisher: Vintage Canada
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February 1992 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0586091513Title: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-586-09151-3 / 978-0-586-09151-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Flamingo
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January 1990 : Paperback
Title: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
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January 1989 : Paperback
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: Viking Press
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January 1987 : Mass Market Paperback
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-7736-7235-4 / 978-0-7736-7235-2 (Canada (English speaking) edition)
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Audio Editions

September 1998 : Audio Cassette
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
ISBN: 0-14-086358-3 / 978-0-14-086358-1 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin Audio USA
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November 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B005Z4SNEQTitle: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: Fourth Estate
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June 2011 : Kindle edition
Cover of ISBN: B0055DZI0YTitle: Mary Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
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January 2011 : Kindle edition
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January 1996 : Unknown
Title: Swann
Author(s): Carol Shields
Publisher: Toronto Random House 1996
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