A Celibate Season - Softcover

Shields, Carol; Howard, Blanche

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ISBN 10: 0140275118 ISBN 13: 9780140275117

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

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For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing letters. Each finds this intimate and exhilarating, as they are able to reveal things that would never be spoken aloud. Yet as the months pass, their letters depict two very distinct views of their time apart and of their marriage. As the separation begins to unravel the threads that bind their marriage together, we bear witness to the evolution and eventually the breakdown of communication. For their "season of celibacy," as they originally joked, is proving to be more of a challenge than either had ever imagined, one that tests the strength of their marriage and their commitment to one another.

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In an original collaboration two award-winning authors, Carol Shields and Blanche Howard, have written an immensely enjoyable novel which gives us both sides of a story about the breakdown of traditional roles, rules and communication in a marriage. A Celibate Season is the story of a married couple, Jocelyn and Charles, and their self-imposed separation of ten months when she accepts a job in a city more than a thousand miles away from her family.

About the Author:

Carol Shields novels include Larry’s Party (1997), winner of the 1998 Orange Prize; The Stone Diaries (1993), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and short-listed for the Orange Prize. Born and brought up in Chicago, Carol Shields has lived in Canada since 1957. Blanche Howard is the author of three previous novels.

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