The Stone Diaries

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Synopsis
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition ONE OF THE MOST successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy's vividly described inner life--from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death.
Copyright:
1993

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780307364135
Publisher:
Vintage Canada
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Copyrighted By:
Carol Shields
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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As an age eighty-five male, I found this book extremely enjoyable to read. I suspect it may have been even more enjoyable if I were an aged female. Of course, since it takes the narator's life from birth to death, one has to be comfortable exploring the ugly as well as the funny side of both being less than one once was and feeling that physically and mentally. It is the kind of book I would like to write about my own time and place in the world. The story presents the numerous, jolting changes of the 20th century in a way that engages both emotion and reason. To my mind, it was overwhelmingly appreciated, as expressed by this: Life is not this or that but more or less, from time to time, from place to place, whenever and wherever, always with circumstance and choice.