基本信息·出版社：HarperPerennial ·页码：400 页 ·出版日期：2008年05月 ·ISBN：0007268343 ·条形码：9780007268344 ·版本：(Reissue) ·装帧：平 ...
| 商家名称 |
信用等级 |
购买信息 |
订购本书 |
|
|
 |
The Stone Diaries |
 |
|
|
The Stone Diaries |
|
基本信息·出版社：HarperPerennial
·页码：400 页
·出版日期：2008年05月
·ISBN：0007268343
·条形码：9780007268344
·版本：(Reissue)
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：The Perennial Collection
·外文书名：石头日记(小说)
内容简介 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 reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion. 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.
编辑推荐 Amazon.co.uk Review This fictionalized autobiography of Daisy Goodwill Flett, captured in Daisy's vivacious yet reflective voice, has been winning over readers since its publication in 1995, when it won the Pulitzer Prize. After a youth marked by sudden death and loss, Daisy escapes into conventionality as a middle-class wife and mother. Years later she becomes a successful gardening columnist and experiences the kind of awakening that thousands of her contemporaries in mid-century yearned for but missed in alcoholism, marital infidelity and bridge clubs. The events of Daisy's life, however, are less compelling than her rich, vividly described inner life-- from her memories of her adoptive mother to her awareness of impending death. Shields' sensuous prose and her deft characterizations have made this, her sixth novel, her most successful yet.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review 'I can think of few novels containing so much that is resonant and unforgettable, or that invite the reader to participate so fully and rewardingly. The Stone Diaries is a triumphant and important book and deserves a wide audience.' Sunday Telegraph 'Rapturous, sensitive and funny.' Guardian 'Carol Shields is an exceptionally sympathetic and involving novelist.' Independent on Sunday 'It is wonderful. A treat.' Joanna Trollope
Ever read a novel with photographs of the characters? Try this cradle-to-grave story of Daisy Goodwill: 'a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego, and average luck'; born 1905, the day her mother expired, Daisy lived an 'ordinary' life, in Canada and the States. But no ordinary novel this, with its sudden depths and eye-stopping moments. Booker-shortlisted in 1993. (Kirkus UK)
Shields (The Republic of Love, The Orange Fish, Swan, plus see above) offers epic material in this century-long story of a woman's life told from many points of view. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the novel dazzles with its deft touch and ironic wisdom. Daisy Goodwill is born in 1905 in Manitoba and dies early in the 1990's in a Florida nursing home. Chapter headings are archetypal: "Birth, 1905," "Childhood, 1916," "Marriage, 1927," "Love, 1936," "Motherhood, 1947," until, finally, "Illness and Decline, 1985" and "Death." In fact, the novel even includes 16 pages of photos to mimic the usual pattern of a biography. In this case, however, the point of view switches frequently: "Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses," Daisy says in "Birth," and the narrative structure bears out this theme. Daisy's mother dies in childbirth, and her father, a stonecutter, forgets for days at a time "that he is the father of a child...." Her father moves to Indiana, where she marries a man who quickly commits suicide and then, in 1936, she marries Barker Flett, a professor whose mother had brought her up. Her life plays itself out. Shields's quiet touch, gossipy and affectionate, re-creates Daisy's poignant decline and death with dollops of humorous distance, including obituaries, recipes, and overheard snippets of conversation. Shields, who began as a miniaturist, has come full bloom with this latest exploration of domestic plenitude and paucity; she's entered a mature, luminous period, devising a style that develops an earlier whimsical fabulism into a hard-edged lyricism perfect for the ambitious bicultural exploration she undertakes here. (Kirkus Reviews)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Guardian ‘Rapturous, sensitive and funny.’
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Independent on Sunday ‘Carol Shields is an exceptionally sympathetic and involving novelist.’
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Joanna Trollope ‘It is wonderful. A treat.’
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
