The Stone Diaries Summary
Carol Shields

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 clo... Read more

[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.]... Read more

[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?... Read more

[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 earli... Read more

[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, ... Read more

[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, bu... Read more

[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 Go... Read more