SOURCE: "Voorstand, Go Home!," in The New York Times Book Review, February 12, 1995, p. 7.
An American-born Canadian novelist, poet, playwright, and critic, Shields won a Pulitzer Prize and a Governor General's Award for her novel The Stone Diaries (1993). In the review below, she remarks favorably on The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith.
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