From a high thin wire / Joan Clark.
TITLE:
From a high thin wire / Joan Clark.
Publication Date:
2004
Publication Information:
Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions,
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
152 p.
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Contents:
God's country -- Her father's daughter -- Historical fiction -- Passage by water -- Tail of the female -- Italian Spaghetti -- Salvation -- Territory -- Holy Roller Empire -- From a high thin wire.
Summary:
The ten frank yet subtle fictions in this collection are loosely based on Joan Clark's own life. Like Emily, a character who recurs in several stories, Clark left Cape Breton for Alberta as a young woman, only to struggle later with her sense of not quite belonging. Shortly after its publication, William French wrote in The Globe and Mail, "[Clark has] that admirable ability to peel away the skin and let us see all the complex influences that intersect to make a particular woman act as she does... She has a fine sense of the infinite possibilities of life that are somehow never realized because of the limitations of human nature."
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780864923851
