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The stone diaries

Shields, Carol. (Author).

The story of a woman, written to resemble a biography, complete with family photos. The chapter headings tell the story: "Birth, 1905;" "Childhood, 1916;""Marriage, 1927;" "Love, 1936;" "Motherhood, 1947;""Illness and Decline, 1985;" and, finally, "Death."

Book  - 1995
FIC Shiel
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Subject
Women > Fiction.
Genre
Domestic fiction.
  • ISBN: 014023313X
  • ISBN: 9780140233131
  • ISBN: 0785799540
  • ISBN: 9780785799542
  • Physical Description print
    361 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
  • Publisher New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 1994
Formatted Contents Note: Birth, 1905 -- Childhood, 1916 -- Marriage, 1927 -- Love, 1936 -- Motherhood, 1947 -- Work, 1955-1964 -- Sorrow, 1965 -- Ease, 1977 -- Illness and decline, 1985 -- Death
Target Audience Note:
1160L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.6 17 10847.
Awards Note:
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1995.