The Stone Diaries was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly.
"The Stone Diaries" includes an elaborate family tree of the sort usually found in biographies as well as eight pages of family photographs.
"The Stone Diaries" reminds us again why literature matters.
"The Stone Diaries," which won this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is a rich, panoramic novel in the guise of a biography.
Writing "The Stone Diaries," she worried that the story was thin on plot.
The Stone Diaries is a 1993 award-winning novel by Carol Shields.
Shields used the coordinate college system of Long and Hanover as inspiration in several of her works, especially The Stone Diaries.
Like many of her works (especially The Stone Diaries), Unless explores the extraordinary that lies within the ordinary lives of ordinary women.
Like its predecessor, The Stone Diaries, Shields' profound insights into human nature transform Larry from an ordinary, average man into a figure of universal humanity.
A Stone Diary was submitted to Oxford University Press in 1975.
