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Swann

Published
Jul 1989
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General Fiction General Fiction
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320

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Carol Shields's award-winning and critically acclaimed "literary mystery," first published in 1987.

Swann
is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how could she have produced these works of genius in almost complete isolation? Mysteriously, all traces of Swann's existence — her notebook, the first draft of her work, even her photograph — gradually vanish as the characters in this engrossing novel become caught up in their own concepts of who Mary Swann was.

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Aug 1990 Penguin ISBN 0140134298
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First Edition Jul 1989 Viking ISBN 067082822X
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Jan 2011 Carol Shields Literary Trust ISBN B004IWRDCE
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Jan 2011 Random House (Canada) ISBN 030736724X
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