num_pages: 361
description: The Stone Diaries is Carol Shields’s most celebrated work and one of the most critically acclaimed and successful novels of the past two decades. A fictional autobiography of an ordinary woman, this multi-award-winning book (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Governor-General’s Award) serves as a record of the last century. Daisy Goodwill is on a journey of self-discovery. From her last days in a Florida nursing home she looks back in an attempt to make sense of her life story. It is a life like any other, filled with the richness of human relations and the sting of disappointments both big and small. The beauty of this work lies in the details, the tiny brushstrokes of character and setting, at which Carol Shields is the undisputed master. This engrossing abridged recording was first broadcast on CBC Radio in 1995. Carol Shields both reviewed and approved the abridgement and the recording.
language: English
title: The Stone Diaries
titlecomplete: The Stone Diaries
genres: Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Contemporary
ratings_count: 39551
places: Canada, Indiana
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
publisher: Penguin