The Stone Diaries

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Call Number: Fiction / Shields, Carol
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Shields, Carol	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Birth, 1905 -- Childhood, 1916 -- Marriage, 1927 -- Love, 1936 -- Motherhood, 1947 -- Work, 1955-1964 -- Sorrow, 1965 -- Ease, 1977 -- Illness and decline, 1985 -- Death.
In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.

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Introspection on the Meaning of Life submitted by sVfGI7Glt2pz7GZgVB90 on July 30, 2020, 5:10pm A fictional autobiography that spans cradle-to-grave of an ordinary woman. a sensitive depiction of the experience of "being" a woman with astonishing insight and a powerful cerebral breadth. I was engrossed in the story and read it fast. Won a Pulitzer.