SOURCE: Waxman, Barbara Frey. “A New Language of Aging: ‘Deep Play’ in Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries and Alison Lurie's The Last Resort.” South Atlantic Review 67, no. 2 (spring 2002): 25-51.
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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