SOURCE: "Small Ceremonies and the Art of the Novel," in Journal of Canadian Fiction, Vol. 28, No. 29, 1980, pp. 172-78.
In the essay below, Page discusses Shields's observations about fiction, biography, and sources in Small Ceremonies.
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