Dancing in the Dark

Joan Barfoot

apr, 2010 · Vintage Canada

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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. And so she sits, silently filling notebooks, trying to find where and how her life went wrong. Dancing in the Dark is a tightly woven psychological novel, which explores the idea that madness is not necessarily self-destructive, and may lead to a kind of wisdom.

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Joan Barfoot is the award-winning author of eleven novels, including Abra, winner of the Books in Canada Prize for First Novel; Critical Injuries, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Trillium Award; and Luck, shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her work, which reviewers have variously called ‘harrowing and hilarious’, and ‘gloriously subversive’, has been compared internationally to the fictions of Carol Shields, Anne Tyler, Margaret Atwood and Margaret Drabble. Her other books include Dancing in the Dark, which was adapted into an award-winning Canadian entry in the Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals; Duet for Three; Family News; Plain Jane, Charlotte and Claudia Keeping in Touch; Some Things About Flying; Getting Over Edgar; and Exit Lines. A recipient of the Marian Engel Award, she has also been a journalist during much of her career. She lives in London, Ontario, Canada.