num_pages: 352
description: Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit on a downtown street corner silent and cross-legged with a begging bowl in her lap and a placard round her neck that says "Goodness."The final book from Pulitzer Prize-winner Carol Shields, Unless is a candid and deeply moving novel from one of the twentieth century's most accomplished and beloved authors.--back cover
language: English
title: Unless
titlecomplete: Unless
genres: Canada, Canadian Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Womens, Literature, Family, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 16318
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: Harper Perennial