The Stone Diaries

Author: Carol Shields

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Price : $10.00 NZD
ISBN : 9781857022254
Publisher : 4th estate
Imprint : 4th Estate
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Weight (g) : 0.28
Publication date : June 1994
Dimensions : 198mm X 130mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Product Type : books

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Author : Carol Shields
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Language : English
Reading Level : very good
Pages : 384
Illustrations : illustrations geneal. table, portraits
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Description

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.

Awards

Winner of Pulitzer Prize Novel Category 1994 and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1995.

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