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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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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...


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The Women's Review of Books
The Stone Diaries.
05/01/1994: 1,825 words, approx. 6 pages
You would expect that good books from a country as close to us (in every sense) as Canada would quickly find American covers. Apparently not. It has taken more than a decade for the first US edition of Carol Shields' Happenstance to appear,...
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The Boston Globe
The Stones Diaries
10/22/1997: 738 words, approx. 3 pages
Whenever one of the misogynist, police-baiting, racist rap "artists" -- you know, the ones that Harvard's Henry Louis Gates hails as totems of African-American culture -- dies in a hail of gunfire, I offer crocodile-teared condolences to my young boys. Tupac; the Notorious B.I.G.;...
 


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Critical Essay by Barbara Frey Waxman
9,527 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, Waxman asserts that The Stone Diaries provides a fresh, positive, playful perspective on old age and death.
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The Stone Diaries
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[In the following interview, which was conducted in December 1994, Shields discusses The Stone Diaries and her writing process.]
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The Stone Diaries
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[Fitzgerald is an English novelist, biographer, and journalist. In the review below, she remarks favorably on The Stone Diaries.]
 


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The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

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