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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields.
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In the following essay, Waxman asserts that The Stone Diaries provides a fresh, positive, playful perspective on old age and death.
Author May Sarton observed in 1973 that old age is a “foreign...
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In the following review of Happenstance and The Stone Diaries, Pool argues that while similar in nature and focus, the latter is more complex.
You would expect that good books from a country as close ...
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In the following review of The Stone Diaries, Gussow provides background on the Shields's life and career.
The Stone Diaries, which won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a rich,...
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[Brookner is an English novelist, nonfiction writer, critic, and translator. In the following review, she remarks favorably on The Stone Diaries, noting Shield's characterization and optimism.]...
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[Fitzgerald is an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. In the review below, she remarks favorably on The Stone Diaries.]
The Stone Diaries (though there are in fact no diaries, they are said ...
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[Below, Sherman offers a mixed review of The Stone Diaries.]
A single question sits at the heart of all Carol Shields' fiction: How can we ever truly understand another person's life? In...
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[In the following review, Messud remarks favorably on The Stone Diaries.]
"Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place we are swept up, suddenly, between the body�...
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[Summers is a Canadian journalist and short story writer. In the review below, she discusses the characters in The Stone Diaries.]
When The Stone Diaries was short-listed for the Booker Award earlier ...
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[In the following excerpt, Koenig discusses the plot and themes of The Stone Diaries.]
Speaking at her college-graduation ceremony, Daisy Goodwill's father asks his audience to think of the kno...
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[Parini is an American poet, novelist, critic, and educator. In the following review, he favorably assesses The Stone Diaries.]
Carol Shields, the American-born Canadian novelist and story writer, is ...
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[In the following review, Van Tuyl Clayton asserts that The Stone Diaries concerns "the universal problem of how ordinary men and women connect with one another and whether they are living auth...
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[In the following review, McGill discusses the main themes in The Stone Diaries.]
Daisy Stone Goodwill, heroine and chronicler of Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries, never knew her mother, but t...
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[In the following interview, which was conducted in December 1994, Shields discusses The Stone Diaries and her writing process.]
[Sturino]: The Stone Diaries was a huge success for you. How did that f...
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[In the review below, Fee examines narration and the theme of domesticity in The Stone Diaries.]
The Stone Diaries begins: "My mother's name was Mercy Stone Goodwill." Daisy Goodw...
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Teaching The Stone Diaries
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The Stone Diaries Lesson Plans contain 116 pages of teaching material, including:
Critical Essay by Barbara Frey Waxman
