Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

by Claire Fejes
Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

by Claire Fejes

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Overview

Young Claire Fejes was a promising sculptor and painter in New York City when her husband gave in to "gold fever." She held the unconventional view that her career was as important as his. But in those days, a woman followed her husband, so Claire did--to Fairbanks, last stop on the Alaska Railroad, in the heart of the immense northern territory, where Joe Fejes intended to mine for gold. In a refreshingly candid memoir, Claire describes a remote outpost where the young couple joins a hard breed of Alaskans who transform loneliness into powerful friendships and where the artist overcomes soul-aching cultural isolation. Fairbanks is populated by characters such as the happy Finnish couple who adopt Claire and Joe; the lively Eva McGown, a one-woman social services agency who wears a potent violet perfume and speaks with a sweet Irish brogue; and Fabian Carey, the trapper who loves the wilderness as much as he does opera, literate, and art. Written from the heart, this memoir of post-war Alaska has become a classic with its nostalgic reflections of a simpler time.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935347460
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
Publication date: 02/15/2016
Edition description: 3rd ed.
Pages: 296
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.74(d)

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

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