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The Stone Diaries

(1993)
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Awards
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Best Book
Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel.

Genre: Literary Fiction

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"It is wonderful. A treat." - Joanna Trollope


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