The Stone Diaries
Amazon Description:
This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful garden columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life--from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations make this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet.
Added on: Saturday, November 11 2006
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Source: The Stone Diaries, Page: experience
Contributed by: Kimberly Ann Possible.
Carol Shields said
Source: The Stone Diaries, Page: experience
Contributed by: Kimberly Ann Possible.
At the edge of every experience is the refracted light of recollection snagged there like an image in a beveled mirror.
Source: The Stone Diaries, Page: distance, premonitions, imagin
Contributed by: Kimberly Ann Possible.
Sometimes she looks at things close up and sometimes from a distance, and she does insist on showing herself in a sunny light, hardly ever giving us a glimpse of those dark premonitions we all experience. And, oh dear, dear, she is cursed with the lonley woman's romantic imagination and this can support only happy endings.