The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields First published 1993

About this book

This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era.

~from the back cover

Subjects

  • 20e siècle
  • american literature
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=1994
  • award:national_book_critics_circle_award=fiction
  • canada
  • canadian fiction
  • diary fiction
  • domestic fiction
  • femmes
  • fiction
  • fiction, family life
  • fiction, family life, general
  • fiction - general
  • fiction, women
  • general
  • histoire
  • large type books
  • literary
  • literature
  • marriage, fiction
  • national book critics circle award winner
  • spanish: adult fiction
  • widows, fiction
  • women
  • women authors