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The Stone Diaries

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By Carol Shields
Introduction by Penelope Lively

By Carol Shields
Introduction by Penelope Lively

By Carol Shields
Introduction by Penelope Lively

By Carol Shields
Introduction by Penelope Lively

By Carol Shields
Read by Deborah Drakeford
Introduction by Penelope Lively

By Carol Shields
Read by Deborah Drakeford
Introduction by Penelope Lively

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Part of Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

Part of Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

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Sep 30, 2008 | ISBN 9780143105503

Ebook $13.99

Sep 30, 2008 | ISBN 9781101078983

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    About The Stone Diaries

    In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

    One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy’s vividly described inner life–from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Stone Diaries

    In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

    One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett is a subtle but affecting portrait of an everywoman reflecting on an unconventional life. What transforms this seemingly ordinary tale is the richness of Daisy’s vividly described inner life–from her earliest memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    About The Stone Diaries

    Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pulitzer Prize, and Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

    Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill Flett drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood, and old age, bewildered by her inability to understand her own role in the unsettled decades of the twentieth century. At last, reflecting on her unobserved and unconventional life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.

    In The Stone Diaries, one of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, Carol Shields weaves the strands of Daisy’s life together in a rich, sensuous, and poignant work that delivers lasting insights into the nature of life—and fiction.

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    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    About Carol Shields

    Carol Shields (1935–2003) is the author of The Stone Diaries, which won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Canada’s Governor General’s Award. Her other novels and short story collections include The Republic of Love, Happenstance, and… More about Carol Shields

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 30, 2008 | 304 Pages | 5-5/8 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143105503

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Classics
    Sep 30, 2008 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9781101078983

    Category: Women’s Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.00
    Published by Vintage Canada
    Aug 23, 2022 | 776 Minutes | ISBN 9781039004160
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    Governor General’s Literary Awards – Fiction WINNER 1993

    Pulitzer Prize WINNER 1995

    Pulitzer Prize (Fiction) AWARD 1995

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