Stone Diaries
by Shields, Carol
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394223624
- ISBN 13
- 9780394223629
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Random House Canada. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394223624 . First Edition. Red Hardcovers in Near Fine condition. Tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages with light spine end bumping. The DJ is unclipped and in Good condition with spine end and cover edgewear. "Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography." ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 361 pages .
Synopsis
The Stone Diaries is a 1993 award winning novel by Carol Shields. It is the fictional autobiography about the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth. Through marriage and motherhood, Daisy struggles to find contentment, never truly understanding her life's true purpose. The book's title may have been inspired by Pat Lowther's poetry collection A Stone Diary.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27513
- Title
- Stone Diaries
- Author
- Shields, Carol
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394223624
- ISBN 13
- 9780394223629
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 0394223624, Historical Fiction, Canada > Domestic Fiction, Classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Historical Fiction;
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