by Carol Shields · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857022254
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«The Stone Diaries» is the novel by Carol Shields, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The novel follows the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett from her birth in 1905 to her death in 1980, between Manitoba, Indiana and Florida. Shields interweaves public and private episodes of an ordinary woman with silences and secrets, and builds a portrait about memory, identity and the way a life is told.
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1995; the Fourth Estate edition is a 2003 reprint.
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.
