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Books : Literature & Fiction : World Literature : Canadian : Women Writers : Authors, A-Z : Clark, Joan
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A combination of fact, fiction, and fantasy, Eiriksdottir is the story of Norsemen who, 1,000 years ago, crossed the treacherous seas to Vinland, a land that became both mythical and real. Their final voyage, led by Freydis Eiriksdottir, the enigmatic daughter of the renegade Eirik the Red, is shrouded in mystery. Of the two ships that set out from Greenland in search of Vinland, why did only one ship return from the fabled new-found land? And what kind of a leader was Freydis? Was she brave and resourceful? Or was she, as the sagas claim, vengeful and cruel? Epic in scope, Eiriksdottir presents a complex northern world in which greed and desire, dreams and luck are intertwined. Joan Clark's vivid and sensuous prose will resonate in the reader s mind long after the last page has been turned.
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16 short stories by women who have a significant attachment to Cape Breton. Many weren't born here and about half don't write about Cape Breton. The stories are about fisherwomen and aliens from space, the pognancy of family life and tragedy in the coal mines--and several approaches to love. Many of these writers have earned serious attention and some fame--and several will be discoveries.
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Shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General's Award for Fiction
Set in a Swampy Cree community on the western shore of Hudson Bay, The Victory of Geraldine Gull is about the struggle for survival. In prose as clear as a northern lake, Joan Clark weaves together biblical symbolism of the flood and salvation with native myth and legend, while offering a message of hope and the dignity of self-determination.
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The thirteen linked stories in Joan Clark’s Swimming Toward the Light are like a spectrum of bright colours refracted into a clear white beam. Layer by layer, they reveal the life of Madge Murray, from her childhood in wartime Nova Scotia and her youth in New Brunswick, to her defiance as a young divorcee and her continuing quest as a West Coast artist. Always, Madge struggles to live in peace, dependent by instinct but pulled towards independence by her circumstances and the discovery of her own creativity. Decent, fallible, and startlingly complex, Madge’s family, from her distant ancestors to her grown children, shares her own tangled nature. In Swimming Toward the Light, Clark portrays a determined girl growing into a strong woman who faces violence and misery head-on. Some stories, such as “Luna Moths,” contain passages of lyrical beauty, and others, including “War Stories” and “The Train Family,” are rich with the poignancy that comes with delayed understanding. (20120504)
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Knowing only that the Trout Tree is a work of art, a young city girl visits several different artists in her search for it.
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