Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

by Claire Fejes, Claire Fejes (Illustrator)

Overview

In her refreshingly candid memoir, Fejes tells of a remote outpost where a hardy breed of Alaskans overcomes loneliness and of her own soul-aching artistic and cultural isolation. She describes characters such as Eva McGown, a one-woman social-service agency who wears powerful violet perfume and speaks with a sweet Irish brogue; and Fabian Carey, a trapper who loves the wilderness as fervently as he does opera, literature, and art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979047060
Publisher:	Epicenter Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.88(h) x 0.76(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

The late Claire Fejes, a resident of Alaska for more than thirty-fiveyears, one of the state's finest painters.

Table of Contents

1 Leaving Home 11

2 Frontier Living 19

3 Sourdoughs 27

4 A Different Drummer 33

5 Our Mothers 43

6 Spring Thaw 51

7 Homesteaders 63

8 Moore Creek Mining Company 75

9 Sauna and Bears 83

10 Gatherings 93

11 Reaching Out 105

12 Frontier Women 117

13 The Line 129

14 Wild Cranberries 141

15 First Snowfall 153

16 Woodstove 163

17 Cabin Fever 176

18 Sixty Below Zero 183

19 Winter Solstice 189

20 Birth 199

21 Dancing in the Dark 205

22 Harding Within 211

23 Going Within 223

24 Twilight 233

25 Winter Hysteria 241

26 Ice Carnival 249

27 Father 255

28 Disaster 261

29 Mining at Rampart 271

30 Music Trails 277

31 Going North 285

Epilogue 295

About the Author 296