The Stone Diaries
Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
In The Stone Diaries, one of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, Carol Shields weaves the strands of Daisy’s life together in a rich, sensuous, and poignant work that delivers lasting insights into the nature of…
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September 28, 2011
Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada's Governor General's Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and Swann. Shields’s work has been translated into 33 languages.
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields
Unless
Carol Shields
Startle and Illuminate
Anne Giardini and Nicholas Giardini, eds.
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields with an introduction by Penelope Lively
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Susanna Moodie, Afterword by Carol Shields
The Collected Stories of Carol Shields
Carol Shields
Jane Austen
Carol Shields
Dropped Threads 2
Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Thirteen Hands And Other Plays
Carol Shields
Dressing Up for the Carnival
Carol Shields
Dropped Threads
Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson
Larry's Party
Carol Shields