The Stone Diaries - Couverture souple

Shields, Carol

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857022254 ISBN 13 : 9781857022254

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Governor-General's Award, and short-listed for the Booker Prize. 'The Stone Diaries' is the story of one woman's life, a truly sensuous novel which relects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carol Shields's novels include Larry's Party (1997), winner of the 1998 Orange Prize; The Republic of Love (1992); Happenstance (1991) and Mary Swann (1990). Dressing Up for the Carnival, a bestselling collection of short stories, was published in 2000, and a previous collection, Various Miracles, was published in 1994. Born and brought up in Chicago, Carol Shields has lived in Canada since 1957. She was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857022254
• ISBN 13: 9781857022254
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
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