by Carol Shields · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140233131
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«The Stone Diaries» is the novel by Carol Shields published by Penguin Books in paperback, with 400 pages in English.
The novel traces the life of Daisy Stone Goodwill from her birth in Manitoba in 1905 to her old age, through her stages as daughter, wife, mother and widow. Unable to find her place in her own story, Daisy reconstructs the moments that define her in a narrative about female identity, memory and the passage of time in the twentieth century.
The work won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1995, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor General's Award, and was a finalist for the Booker Prize.
For readers of literary fiction and book clubs seeking a novel featuring a female protagonist set in the twentieth century.
Carol Ann Shields was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.
