The Stone Diaries
Author(s): Carol Shields
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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Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1994 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1995.
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.
General Fields
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- : 4th estate
- : 4th Estate
- : 0.28
- : 01 June 1994
- : 198mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Carol Shields
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813.54
- : very good
- : 384
- : Modern fiction
- : illustrations geneal. table, portraits