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The Stone Diaries Paperback - 1995
by Carol Shields
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Readers admired the novel’s lyrical prose and formally adventurous design—an unreliable, multi-voiced “autobiography” assembled from letters, interviews, and images that traces an ordinary woman’s life. Many praised its precise observations and the way domestic detail and gardening motifs accumulate into meaning, calling it a notable character study. Detractors found the pace slow, the tone dour, and the heroine opaque, describing it as emotionally remote or dry despite the craft. Even skeptics often noted that the ending lands with grace.
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- Title The Stone Diaries
- Author Carol Shields
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 361
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Publication date 1995-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780140233131 / 014023313X
- Weight 0.61 lbs (0.28 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.04 x 0.74 in (20.07 x 12.80 x 1.88 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1160
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Women - Fiction
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 93030239
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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