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The Stone Diaries

The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields (Author)

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    E-BOOK: Adobe Reader 1994

    $4.18

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    Paperback 2008

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    Hardcover 1993

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Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel.

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Format: E-BOOK: Adobe Reader
 Pages: 384
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 01 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 1857022254
ISBN 13: 9781857022254
Prizes: Winner of Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1995 and Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1994.

Media Reviews
'I can think of few novels containing so much that is resonant and unforgettable, or that invite the reader to participate so fully and rewardingly. The Stone Diaries is a triumphant and important book and deserves a wide audience.' Sunday Telegraph 'Rapturous, sensitive and funny.' Guardian 'Carol Shields is an exceptionally sympathetic and involving novelist.' Independent on Sunday 'It is wonderful. A treat.' Joanna Trollope
Author Bio
Carol Shields's novels include Larry's Party (1997), winner of the 1998 Orange Prize; The Republic of Love (1992); Happenstance (1991) and Mary Swann (1990). Dressing Up for the Carnival, a bestselling collection of short stories, was published in 2000, and a previous collection, Various Miracles, was published in 1994. Born and brought up in Chicago, Carol Shields has lived in Canada since 1957. She was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.