(Book by Barfoot, Joan)
Book by Barfoot, Joan
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Joan Barfoot was born on May 17, 1946 in Owen Sound, Ontario, and graduated with a degree in English from the University of Western Ontario in 1969. As a child, while she and her mother watched a squirrel in their back yard from their kitchen, her mother told Barfoot to tell her the squirrel"s story and she"d write it down. Barfoot doesn"t remember the story but remembers her delight when her mother read the story back to her and the power of creating lieutenant
University of Western Ontario.
Her latest novel, Exit Lincolnshire, was published in 2009. She worked as a reporter and editor for various newspapers in Ontario including the Windsor Star, the Toronto Sun and the London Free Press. Barfoot was also encouraged to write by a teacher who told Barfoot she wrote well and to consider some word-related career.
In addition to writing Barfoot occasionally teaches creative writing classes though she believes writing ought to be an entirely private pleasure and a puzzle.
In 1986, her second novel, Dancing in the Dark (1982), became a film of the same name, starring Martha Henry. She explains her reasoning for the murder throughout the novel while looking for psychological freedom.
Barfoot"s work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble, Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood. She lives in London, Ontario.
In 2005, the Giller jury committee, describing Luck, wrote that “Joan Barfoot is at the peak of her powers with this splendidly realized tragicomedy about a household in the wake of an unexpected death.
With its note-perfect narration, mordant wit and wonderfully neurotic cast of characters, Luck shows how death can reveal life in all its absurdity and complexity. This scintillating comedy of manners is also a profound meditation on fate, love, and artifice.” 1978 Books in Canada First Novel Award, for Abra.
(Book by Barfoot, Joan)
