Stone Diaries (Shields)

The Stone Diaries
Carol Shields, 1994
Penguin Group USA
400 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780143105503

Summary
Canada Governor General's Award (1994)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1995)

The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.

Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. (From the publisher.)