The Stone Diaries

Shields, Carol

ISBN 10: 0670853097 / ISBN 13: 9780670853090

Published by Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1994

About this Item

Pulitzer prize-winning novel about the life of Daisy Stone Goodwill who drfits through the roles of child, wife, widow and mother and finally into old age. Also short-listedfor the Booker Prize. A touch of light soiling to top page edge, very ligh twear to edges of boards. Seller Inventory # 1000708

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Stone Diaries

Publisher: Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1994

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First American Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

From her birth in rural Manitoba, to her journey with her father to southern Indiana, to her years as a wife, mother, and widow, to her old age, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to find a place for herself in her own life. 15,000 first printing.

Review:

This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful gardening columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life-- from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations have made this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet.