Joan Barfoot
Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of 9 previous novels, including, most recently, Critical Injuries, which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize. Her work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble, Fay Weldon and Margaret Atwood. Luck was a Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist. She lives in London, Ontario.
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Dancing in the Dark
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36842-3 (0-307-36842-4)
April 23, 2010 | $13.99
Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening...
Written by Joan Barfoot
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36842-3 (0-307-36842-4)
April 23, 2010 | $13.99
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Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening...
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trade paperback.
Luck
eBook | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37531-5 (0-307-37531-5)
January 29, 2010 | $13.99
“There is good luck, and there is bad luck, and then there’s the ambiguous sort of luck that’s a lot of this and some of the other.”
Philip Lawrence, a robust and pleasure-loving furniture-maker, dies suddenly at the age of forty-six. Though that’s terribly young by most standards, he’s lucky to have...
Written by Joan Barfoot
eBook | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37531-5 (0-307-37531-5)
January 29, 2010 | $13.99
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“There is good luck, and there is bad luck, and then there’s the ambiguous sort of luck that’s a lot of this and some of the other.”
Philip Lawrence, a robust and pleasure-loving furniture-maker, dies suddenly at the age of forty-six. Though that’s terribly young by most standards, he’s lucky to have...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Exit Lines
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39706-5 (0-307-39706-8)
June 16, 2009 | $21.00
The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any...
Written by Joan Barfoot
Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39706-5 (0-307-39706-8)
June 16, 2009 | $21.00
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The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any...
Also available as an
eBook.
Exit Lines
eBook | 336 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37172-0 (0-307-37172-7)
February 24, 2009 | $13.99
The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any...
Written by Joan Barfoot
eBook | 336 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37172-0 (0-307-37172-7)
February 24, 2009 | $13.99
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The Idyll Inn, the setting for Joan Barfoot’s brilliant eleventh novel, Exit Lines, is a pastel-hued care facility designed for seniors “with healthy incomes but varying hopes, despairs, abilities and deformities.” In scathing detail, Barfoot describes the Idyll Inn’s plastic plants, inoffensive art and pallid recreational activities, all familiar to any...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Luck
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97701-1 (0-676-97701-4)
June 27, 2006 | $21.00
“There is good luck, and there is bad luck, and then there’s the ambiguous sort of luck that’s a lot of this and some of the other.”
Philip Lawrence, a robust and pleasure-loving furniture-maker, dies suddenly at the age of forty-six. Though that’s terribly young by most standards, he’s lucky to have...
Written by Joan Barfoot
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97701-1 (0-676-97701-4)
June 27, 2006 | $21.00
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“There is good luck, and there is bad luck, and then there’s the ambiguous sort of luck that’s a lot of this and some of the other.”
Philip Lawrence, a robust and pleasure-loving furniture-maker, dies suddenly at the age of forty-six. Though that’s terribly young by most standards, he’s lucky to have...
Also available as an
eBook.
Dancing in the Dark
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97835-3 (0-676-97835-5)
May 2, 2006 | $19.95
Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening...
Written by Joan Barfoot
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97835-3 (0-676-97835-5)
May 2, 2006 | $19.95
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Edna Cormick, forty-three, is incarcerated in a mental hospital for murdering her husband. For twenty years, Edna escaped the world by devoting herself to the health and welfare of her husband and home, so when she learns he’s been having an affair, her sense of betrayal is devastating and literally maddening...
Also available as an
eBook.
