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The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era.
A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.
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Fiction, Canada, Femmes, Histoire, General, Literary, Fiction - General, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Women, Canadian fiction, Women authors, Domestic fiction, Literature, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1994, award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction, 20e siècle, Large type books, Fiction, family life, Marriage, fiction, Widows, fiction, Fiction, women, Diary fiction, American literature, Fiction, family life, generalTimes
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The Stone Diaries
2008, Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Electronic resource
in English
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The Stone Diaries
October 27, 2006, BTC Audiobooks
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The Stone Diaries
September 30, 2006, Goose Lane Editions
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Stone Diaries, The (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition)
September 6, 2005, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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LA Memoria De Las Piedras (Andanzas)
June 2002, Tusquets
Paperback
in Spanish
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The Stone Diaries
October 1999, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
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Das Tagebuch der Daisy Goodwill: Roman
1997-09, Piper München Zürich
Taschenbuch
in German
- 2. Auflage
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The stone diaries
1996, Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Text (large print)
in English
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Sutōn daiarī =: The stone diaries
1996, Shōgakukan
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The Stone Diaries (Penguin Audiobooks)
October 1, 1995, Penguin Audio
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First Sentence
"MY MOTHER'S NAME WAS MERCY STONE GOODWILL."
Work Description
This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era.
~from the back cover
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