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Joan Louise Barfoot (born May 17, 1946) is a Canadian novelist. She has published 11 novels, including Luck (2005), which was a nominee for the 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Critical Injuries (2001), which was longlisted for the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of 11 novels, ranging from Abra, which won the Books in Canada (now Amazon) prize for first novels, to Critical Injuries, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Award, to Luck, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Joan Barfoot is an award-winning novelist whose work has been compared internationally with that of Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Margaret Drabble and Margaret Atwood.
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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.
A Canadian novelist’s potent story of small town life and a middle-aged woman and restless 17-year-old boy whose lives are changed after a chance and tragic meeting in an ice-cream parlour.
Jan 1, 2008 · 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.”.
Sep 28, 2011 · Joan Louise Barfoot, journalist, novelist (b at Owen Sound, Ont, 17 May 1946). Growing up in Owen Sound, Barfoot moved to London, Ontario to attend the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO, where she completed her BA in English (1969).
