The Stone Diaries
New York : Viking, 1994.
Format: Book
Edition: First American edition.
Description: 361 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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."
Contents:
Birth, 1905 -- Childhood, 1916 -- Marriage, 1927 -- Love, 1936 -- Motherhood, 1947 -- Work, 1955-1964 -- Sorrow, 1965 -- Ease, 1977 -- Illness and decline, 1985 -- Death.
ISBN:
0143105507
Governor General's Award, 1993.
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1995.
Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 1995.