The Stone Diaries
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$16.99 |
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1/06/2008 |
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B Format Paperback
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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.
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Critical Praise for
The Stone Diaries
‘I can think of few novels containing so much that is resonant and unforgettable, or that invite the reader to participate so fully and rewardingly. “The Stone Diaries” is a triumphant and important book and deserves a wide audience.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Rapturous, sensitive and funny.’ Guardian ‘Carol Shields is an exceptionally sympathetic and involving novelist.’ Independent on Sunday ‘It is wonderful. A treat.’ Joanna Trollope
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Collected Stories
For the first time, all of Carol Shields' remarkable short stories – some previously unpublished – are gathered together in one paperback volume. In the Collected Stories we bring together Carol Shields' original short story volumes, Various Miracles, The Orange Fish and...
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Duet
Carol Shields' tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others: a husband who keeps secret balls of wool in a bottom drawer, two children who...
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