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The Stone Diaries

by Carol Shields · 1993

Literary Fiction · ranked #154 in category

Daisy Goodwill Flett narrates her own life — from birth in Manitoba in 1905 through to old age — in a biography that uses documents, letters, photographs and others' perspectives alongside Daisy's own unreliable account. Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel asks what a woman's life looks like when she tries to see it clearly.

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Category
Literary Fiction
First published
1993 · 1990s
Author
Carol Shields
Standing
Essential Read

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