The stone diaries / Carol Shields.
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. -- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 014023313X
- ISBN: 9780140233131
- ISBN: 0670853097
- ISBN: 9780670853090
- Physical Description: 361 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First American edition
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 1994.
Content descriptions
- Target Audience Note:
- 1160L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.6 17 10847.
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- Subject:
- Women > Fiction.
Women.
Womyn. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Available copies
- 20 of 22 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 22 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Albert Carlton - Cashiers Community Library | F SHIELDS (Text) | 39493104178175 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| BHM Headquarters Library | FIC (Text) | 38344100797784 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Shields (Text) | 540191010010317 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Elkin Public Library | F SHIELDS (Text) | 30499100049319 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | FIC Shields, Carol (Text) | 0112505573926 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 08/21/2026 |
| Henderson Main Branch | SHI (Text) | 33258002427800 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | SHI (Text) | 33258002427818 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| High Point Library | FIC Shields Carol (Text) | 30519000979206 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Hudson (Fontana) | F SHIELDS (Text) | 39493105281150 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Jackson County Public Library | F SHIELDS (Text) | 39493103890739 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary:
The Stone Diaries is one ordinary woman's story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisy's struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. --
