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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.