The Stone Diaries
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (876 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B009NO1W2O |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 325 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Almost didn't finish it Easymonet Admittedly, my interest ebbed and waned throughout this read. Just as I thought I "got" what the author intended, a new narrator would intervene and I'd be forced to revaluate the story. This, ironically, was the tension that kept me reading when I felt either lost or frustrated. I was determined to understand what Shield's was saying.Unlike many other reviewers here, the final two chapters were where I experienced my eureka (intended or otherwise by the author); where I found the story absolutely profound. Close to her death. R I Besana-Zazueta said starts as an interesting story but then it gets tiresome from getting so many different points of view. It starts as an interesting story but then it gets tiresome from getting so many different points of view, even when sometimes the point of view is of the main character. Towards the end it gets boring.. William A. Sowka Jr. said Thought provoking. This book took me a while to read as I was never really drawn in or enticed to keep reading it. Nonetheless I read on, enjoying the fine writing, and still certain that a climactic end was in store. Well it never really came, yet something more rewarding occurred that caught me by suprise. Upon finishing the book, I sat,closed my eyes, and relished in the thoughts this book provoked in me. Thoughts about life, its meaning, its purpose, how to approach it, thoughts of family, of friendships, of births and deaths, of work, of r
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman's life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.