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The stone diaries / Carol Shields.
LIBRA - Rare PR9199.3.S514 S76 1995 Potok copy
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LIBRA - Special PR9199.3.S514 S76 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shields, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Fiction.
- Women.
- Domestic fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 361 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, genealogical table ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, N.Y.] : Penguin Books, [1995]
- Summary:
- From her calamitous 1905 birth in Manitoba to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother, and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill struggles to understand her place in her own life. Now, in old age, Daisy attempts to tell her life story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
- Contents:
- Birth, 1905
- Childhood, 1916
- Marriage, 1927
- Love, 1936
- Motherhood, 1947
- Work, 1955-1964
- Sorrow, 1965
- Ease, 1977
- Illness and decline, 1985
- Death.
- Notes:
- Originally published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 1994.
- "Published in Penguin Books 1995."
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- "Winner 1994 Nation Book Critics Circle Award"--Cover.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- ISBN:
- 014023313X
- 9780140233131
- 0785799540
- 9780785799542
- OCLC:
- 32457659
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