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{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover, table of contents, content separation, and epub format error checking. } Kindle Edition, 402 pages Published 1993 Viking (2008) Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1995) From her calamitous 1905 birth in Manitoba to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to understand her place in her own life. Now, in old age, Daisy attempts to tell her life story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. 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 missed connections she disco

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Author

Carol Shields

Publisher

Viking; Penguin Group

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429561754

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction

Rating

3.85 / 5 (312 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13