Showing The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
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‘The Stone Diaries’ is the story of one woman’s life, a truly sensuous novel which reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize.
This is the poignant story of Daisy Goodwill, twentieth-century pilgrim, from her calamitous birth in Canada to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Struggling to find her place in the world, she listens and observes, becoming a witness to her own life and death in this rich tale that reflects and illuminates our own unsettled era.
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