Education
She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957. Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton"s University of Alberta.
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( The thirteen linked stories in Joan Clark's Swimming To...)
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.
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While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to take back to Greenland, Thrand is captured by the native Osweet, who have taken him to replace one of their own who was killed by a Greenlander.
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Am Rande der Hudson Bay, zwischen der Baumgrenze und dem ewigen Eis, liegt verloren und vergessen das Indianerdorf Niska. Hier soll Willa Coyle, die junge Kunstlehrerin, den Kindern in den Sommermonaten Zeichenunterricht geben. Nach und nach dringt Willa in die Geheimnisse des Dorfes ein. Es ist ständig vom Hochwasser bedroht, ein Fluch scheint über ihm zu liegen. Geraldine Gull, die hünenhafte, unbezähmbare Indianerin, die von allen gemieden wird, hütet einen geheimen Schatz. Welche Rätsel liegen über ihrer Vergangenheit? Was hat sie vor? Als das Hochwasser kommt und das Dorf versinkt, ist sie es schließlich, die mit ihrer Vision den Bann bricht.
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In the year 1912, a fisherman discovers an infant adrift on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. Back in the Newfoundland village of Drook she's considered a changeling, with her white hair and eyes of different colors. Her very survival shows that her life is charmed. Named Aurora, after the dawn of her rescue from the sea, she exhibits a singular nature as she grows to womanhood amid the austere beauty of the Newfoundland coast. She marries and has two children, but it is only after they are grown, and she is an old woman, that the mystery of Aurora's origins is solved.
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(Madeleine Barrow travels to Calgary to visit her cousin a...)
Madeleine Barrow travels to Calgary to visit her cousin and former best friend Selena. At first, Madeleine looks forward to her trip, but once she arrives everything begins to go wrong. Selena isn't the girl Mad remembered - she seems much older than Madeleine, and is disdainful of her small town cousin. Madeleine becomes homesick and begins to make secret plans to return home.....
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Brown boards. Content is clean with light spotitng to page ends. Good DJ with toning and some soiling.
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( It is the 11th century, a time of struggle and hardship ...)
It is the 11th century, a time of struggle and hardship in what will become the province of Newfoundland. Thrand, a Viking boy from Greenland, is proud to have been chosen to go on a voyage to Leifsbudir in Northern Newfoundland. But events take a disastrous turn when Thrand is captured by the Beothuks, the “red ochre people.” On which side of the cultural divide will he ultimately stand: with his heritage, or with his new people?
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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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Toronto 1988 1st Macmillan. ISBN 0-7715-9281-7. 8vo., hardcover. Fine in VG DJ.
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She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957. Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton"s University of Alberta.
Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She has worked as a teacher. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s.
She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland.
Clark served on the jury of the 2001 Giller Prize. Clark lives in Saint John"s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
1988: fiction finalist, Governor General"son
1988: fiction finalist, Governor General"s Awards 1988: finalist, in Canada First Novel Award, The Victory of Geraldine Gull 1991: Marian Engel Award 1995: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Dream Carvers 1998: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College 1999: Vicky Metcalf Award 2003: Geoffrey Bilson Award, The Word for Home 2006: longlisted for the IMPAC Award, An Audience of Chairs 2010: Order of Canada.
(While on an expedition with his father to get lumber to t...)
(A combination of fact, fiction, and fantasy, Eiriksdottir...)
( The thirteen linked stories in Joan Clark's Swimming To...)
(Am Rande der Hudson Bay, zwischen der Baumgrenze und dem ...)
( It is the 11th century, a time of struggle and hardship ...)
(In the year 1912, a fisherman discovers an infant adrift ...)
(Madeleine Barrow travels to Calgary to visit her cousin a...)
(Toronto 1988 1st Macmillan. ISBN 0-7715-9281-7. 8vo., har...)
(Brown boards. Content is clean with light spotitng to pag...)
