Unless By Carol Shields

Unless is the final novel by Canadian writer Carol Shields, first published by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins in 2002. Semi-autobiographical, it was the capstone to Shields's writing career: she died shortly after its publication in 2003.

UNLESS: A Novel. By Carol Shields. Fourth Estate, $24.95; 224 pp. UNLESS, the new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, is entirely satisfying. It runs the course of a traditional novel ...

Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short-story collection "Stealing the Fire" and a contributing editor to Parade magazine. “Unless,” Carol Shields’ 10th novel, is a thing of beauty--lucidly written ...

Carol Shields, a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who wrote with wit and wonder about love, family and finding one ‘ s place in modern times, has died after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 68 ...

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NEW YORK -- The woman who answers the phone at Carol Shields' house has so light and clear a voice you think it belongs to one of the author's four daughters. But Shields herself is speaking. And ...

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The woman who answers the phone at Carol Shields' house in Victoria, B.C., has so light and clear a voice you think it belongs to one of the author's four daughters. But Shields herself is speaking.

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We use the conjunction unless to mean ‘except if’. The clause which follows unless is a subordinate clause (sc): it needs a main clause (mc) to make a complete sentence. When unless comes before the main clause, we use a comma: Unless [SC] it rains, [MC] we’ll go for a picnic by the river tomorrow.