The Stone Diaries

New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x7. Reprint. Light general wear. 1995 Trade Paperback. 361 pp. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by the prolific Canadian novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. '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. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel.