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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."Shields, who began as a miniaturist, has come full bloom with this latest exploration of domestic plenitude and paucity; she's entered a mature, luminous period, devising a style that develops an earlier whimsical fabulism into a hard-edged lyricism perfect for the ambitious bicultural exploration she undertakes here." - Kirkus ReviewsCarol Shields was born in the United States and holds dual citizenship here and in Canada. Her previ

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Author

Shields, Carol

Publisher

Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated E-Books

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429561754

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (312 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14