Title:
The stone diaries
Author:
Shields, Carol.
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ISBN:
9780143105503
9780785799542
Publication Information:
New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
Physical Description:
xxlii, 269 p. : ill., geneal. table ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics deluxe edition
Penguin classics deluxe edition.
Contents:
Birth, 1905 -- Childhood, 1916 -- Marriage, 1927 -- Love, 1936 -- Motherhood, 1947 -- Work, 1955-1964 -- Sorrow, 1965 -- Ease, 1977 -- Illness and decline, 1985 -- Death.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic Access:
Table of contents only http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008028398.htmlContributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008028398-b.html
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008028398-d.html
Summary:
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.
