false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255795019m/4582565.jpg 77554 32 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. 1820281 1993 The Stone Diaries total:3466|5:689|4:1285|3:1045|2:341|1:106| 3466 12508 4739 404 2 3 false false Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 13:06:34 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 05:03:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jul 07 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 05 09:03:10 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 03 16:16:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Wed Nov 12 17:42:30 -0800 2008 Wed Nov 12 17:42:36 -0800 2008 1
Life is long....and in this long life you lead a series of mini-lives. In each "life" you become a different version of you. We are blessed with the chance and sometime...more...]]> 0 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Sun Jan 13 15:11:04 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 15:36:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Dec 06 08:27:04 -0800 2007 Thu Dec 06 08:27:10 -0800 2007
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Here is the life of Daisy presented mostly through narration, but buttressed by letters, tombstones, photographs (which occasionally contradict the narrative), words etched into a Victorian plate, a luncheon menu, Aunt Daisy's Lemon Pudding recipe, to-...more...]]> 5 4 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 18 19:18:03 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 15 20:18:22 -0800 2009 ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 31 08:41:51 -0700 2007 Fri May 16 20:31:57 -0700 2008 About a month ago, I decided to reread THE STONE DIARIES...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 07:27:54 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 07:40:08 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 20:45:20 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 20:31:36 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Mar 31 12:31:57 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 12:32:50 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Mar 30 10:50:30 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 10:59:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:01:20 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 14 11:18:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Dec 31 05:26:08 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 31 05:28:35 -0800 2008
I loved this description: "This last year she has been in dange...more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:09:08 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:15:21 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 14 19:54:04 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 19:54:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 08 06:56:47 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 06:57:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=4582565