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  Deborah Joy Corey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958) is a Canadian writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award.
The author of numerous articles and stories, Corey's writings have been published in such literary journals as Ploughshares, Carolina Quarterly, Crescent Review, Image, and Grain.
Born and raised in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Corey now lives with her husband and two daughters, in a small coastal village in Maine, a site she used as a model for the setting for her latest novel, The Skating Pond (2003).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deborah_Joy_Corey   (134 words)

  
 IC: Moe Berg in Edmonton Journal - Feb. 9, 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Corey's flawed new book is the kind of thing for which Canadian writers are famous: rural stories with lots of winter, harsh but beautiful landscapes and personal loss.
Corey is a dexterous wordsmith and each sentence reads like it was lovingly crafted, and her settings are described in luxurious detail.
Elizabeth's father is not a villain in the usual sense but Corey subtly and skilfully paints him as a monster; a man who shoots the family dog for disobedience, casts out his promiscuous older daughter and abandons his disfigured wife and teenage daughter, eventually leaving her to fend for herself.
www.interlog.com /~charzi/tpoh/press/features/mrevej8.html   (629 words)

  
 Books at Book Clubs | The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey
Deborah Joy Corey explores how love and desire, belonging and grief, can shape our very beings — the effects rippling through her characters’ lives until tragic events send them flowing in new directions once again.
Deborah Joy Corey was born and raised in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, the sixth of seven children.
As Corey has explained, it was important to look at not only the major events that happen when Elizabeth is a teenager, but also how her experiences play out over her life: “I wondered what happens to a girl in a place she can’t leave.
www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975406   (1271 words)

  
 Deborah Joy Corey: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
[Deborah Joy Corey bio and facts from encyclopedia]
Deborah Joy Corey (born 1958 in Temperance Vale, EHandler: no quick summary.
Corey's writings have been published in such literary journals as Ploughshares, EHandler: no quick summary.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/deborah_joy_corey.htm   (528 words)

  
 Ploughshares, the literary journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Deborah Joy Corey's narrators take control as soon as they get behind the wheel of her stories.
Corey's young narrators tell their stories with vivid sensory details and aren't afraid to voice the quiet longings of the heart.
Corey grew up in New Brunswick, Canada—the bleak landscape for many of her stories which are often autobiographical.
www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=2518   (274 words)

  
 Easy Encyclopedia - Online Encyclopedia. Knowledge is Power
Deborah Joy Corey, born in 1958 in Temperance Vale, New Brunswick, Canada, is a writer whose first novel, Losing Eddie won the 1994 Books in Canada First Novel Award.
Corey's writings have been published in such literary journals as Ploughshares, Carolina Quarterly, Crescent Review Image, and Grain.
With her husband and two daughters, Corey lives in Maine in a small coastal village, the site used fictitiously for her latest novel.
www.easyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/deborah_joy_corey.html   (90 words)

  
 ReadingGroupGuides.com - The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey
Deborah Joy Corey's long-awaited second novel explores a point of Maine so far east that it is almost an island and so desolate that the inhabitants must find something stronger than themselves to make them stay.
Once again Deborah Joy Corey uses lyrical prose to reveal the complex inner working of ordinary lives, exploring how one is shaped by place and desire, and how loss marks and changes each one of us.
Deborah Joy Corey is a magical writer and her new novel burrows deep under the skin."
www.readinggroupguides.com /guides3/skating_pond1.asp   (1089 words)

  
 Musings from Redwing Marsh
About a week before Christmas, I discovered The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey, a hauntingly poetic novel that examines the fourteen-year-old narrator's experience of the calamitous collapse of her family and her subsequent plunge into adult life.
Corey's handling of her protagonist's sexual awakening is both mesmerizing and strikingly original.
I realize that Corey was born in New Brunswick, and that her first novel (Losing Eddie) won a Canadian award, but she has lived in New England for at least fifteen years.
redwingmarsh.blogspot.com /2003/12/about-week-before-christmas-i.html   (311 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Skating Pond: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Elizabeth's moving account of her parents' break-up is reminiscent of Corey's first novel, in which a nameless nine-year-old records, with chilling dispassion, the collapse of her own family.
THE SKATING POND by Deborah Joy Corey is a story written to the emotions and soul of the reader.
Deborah Joy Corey writes with such a fluidity of function and style that even the most mundane story line could become a masterpiece.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0676975399   (1147 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Losing Eddie: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Presented from the point of view of a nine-year-old-girl, it is a story rendered with sincerity and ingenuousness, one in which a child's tenaciously held hopes--for her mother's sanity, her father's sobriety and her three siblings' self-preservation--seem painfully unlikely to be fulfilled.
Corey demonstrates much bright promise with her spare prose, though her story line is depressing.
Eddie, fresh from reform school, is killed; Mama has two breakdowns; Daddy sits in the wellhouse and drinks beer; Sister has twin babies and an abusive husband; brother Bucky almost drowns; and the neighbor across the road dies and the children of the religious nuts up the...
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/094557567X   (344 words)

  
 The Work of Edie Clark - Andre's Odyssey
One was Deborah Joy Corey, at the time a would-be writer with no publishing credits but a lot of zeal.
In September of 1987, Corey called Andre and offered him this: she and seven other writers would like to come to his home for four workshop sessions.
Since that first evening with Deborah Joy Corey and her seven writing friends, Andre has rarely missed a Thursday, though the numbers among him have changed, sometimes dramatically.
www.edieclark.com /work1.htm   (7654 words)

  
 The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0425188353   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The titular skating pond of Deborah Joy Corey's long-awaited second novel is the site of a terrible accident that reveals the cracks in 14-year-old Elizabeth's troubled family life.
Elizabeth's moving account of her parents' break-up is reminiscent of Corey's first novel, Losing Eddie, in which a nameless nine-year-old records, with chilling dispassion, the collapse of her own family.
Deborah Joy Corey's long-awaited second novel fulfills the promise of her first.
www.bookfinder4u.com /detail/0425188353.html   (509 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | The Skating Pond | Deborah Joy Corey
Deborah Joy Corey was born and raised in New Brunswick, Canada.
Like Brontë's, Deborah Corey's vision is dark and unsettling, almost hellish at times, but redeemed by moments of grace."
Elizabeth, the narrator opens and closes with the passage "January is when I think of her most, when the weather has stolen all there is to steal and the earth looks barren under cold blue skies, as is waiting." Why do you think the author chose to repeat this passage?
www.dk.com /static/rguides/us/skating_pond.html   (1244 words)

  
 Joanne Merriam: Parietal Pericardium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I sat under the trees and listened to the end of his, and then to Sue's, and then moved into the main area once intermission started and I wouldn't be disturbing anybody.
After Ed Riche and Deborah Joy Corey's readings (both wonderful) was the supper.
I had gone to Read by the Sea once before, but the meal tickets had been sold out, so we'd missed out on the pork supper.
www.joannemerriam.com /journal/2004/jul04/26.html   (783 words)

  
 BookCloseouts.com - The Bestseller in Bargain Books
In the summer, tourists came to the pond to see the early-morning lilies in bloom.
She lives in a small coastal village with her husband and two daughters.
Corey anchors her girl-done-wrong story with a perfectly realized setting...and protagonist....
www.bookcloseouts.com /?R=0425188353A   (175 words)

  
 Bangor Publishing Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"It's a joy to be allowed to be the servant of the work.
Filmmaker and writer Peter Davis will be a panelist along with artist Joshua Adam and novelist Deborah Joy Corey.
Davis believes that spirituality resides not in the heart, the head or the soul, but in the imagination.
www.bangornews.com /news/templates/default.aspx?a=99918&template=print-article.htm   (575 words)

  
 CTV.ca - Mary Lawson's Crow Lake wins First Novel Award- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
The fourth judge was Patrick Watson of the Historica Foundation.
Previous winners include Michael Redhill, Michael Ondaatje, Joan Barfoot, Joy Kogawa, Nino Ricci and Deborah Joy Corey.
Books in Canada, which was launched in 1971 to promote Canadian literature and to offer a forum for Canadian writers, will be accepting submissions for the 2003 First Novel Award until Dec. 31, 2003.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/20031009/crow_lake031009/20031009?hub=Entertainment&subhub=PrintStory   (509 words)

  
 University of Maine at Fort Kent - Valley Vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pelletier will not be the only accomplished author to present to students.
She plans to invite friends, including Deborah Joy Corey, author of Beaming Eddie Home and others to visit the class.
Additionally, she hopes to dedicate part of a class session for students to hear from and question, via telephone, an agent or editor from New York.
www.umfk.maine.edu /valleyvision/release/default.cfm?recordID=99013   (399 words)

  
 Brunswick Area Arts & Cultural Alliance - Welcome Page
The MWPA Literary Arts Night has always been a favorite event, and this year thirty five literary devotees from our region and as far as Bangor, heard some wonderful literature and poetry.
Deborah Joy Corey opened the evening with a chapter form her most recent novel, "The Skating Pond", with vivid images of a coastal village in Maine.
The relaxing strains of her reading inspired visions of a simple but complex life among her characters.
www.baaca.org /artsnight.html   (1269 words)

  
 Seattle Pacific University Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
He is currently a Guggenheim Fellow working on a collection of essays on art and belief.
Deborah Joy Corey (Fiction) has published stories in many quarterlies, including Ploughshares, Story, New Letters, The Crescent Review, and Image.
Her first novel, Losing Eddie (Algonquin), won the Books in Canada First Novel Award and was voted one of the best 100 novels of the nineties.
www.spu.edu /prospects/grad/Academics/MFA/Faculty/mfafaculty.asp   (641 words)

  
 The Skating Pond by Deborah Joy Corey
A thoughtful reviewer or a thoughtful reader can take your understanding of your writing even further or can even spark an idea for new writing.
Writing and reading is a singular joy, but the extension of it can be something quite different.
Once you publish a book, it belongs to the greater community and you must prepare yourself for this, the praise as well as the criticism — while also remaining open to learn.
www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780676975406&view=qa   (981 words)

  
 Children's Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture (1995)
Sharon Myers' essay on the revolt in the Boys' Industrial Home in East Saint John in the inter-war period reveals many contemporary concerns about the welfare of children, and Theresia Quigley's examination of Deborah Joy Corey's novel Losing Eddie shows us a child's reaction to the effect of death on a New Brunswick family.
Other writers whose images of children are examined here are Hugh MacLennan, Alden Nowlan, and the respected Mi'kmaw elder and author of Out of the Depths, Isabelle Knockwood.
Childhood in Limbo: A Study of Deborah Joy Corey's Losing Eddie / Theresia Quigley
www.uoguelph.ca /ccl/press/ccp_thompson.shtml   (492 words)

  
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You will have four weeks to complete the reading of the novel.
There are four novels to choose from: Tex by S.E. Hinton, Losing Eddie by Deborah Joy Corey, Crabbe by William Bell, or To Kill a Mockinbird by Harper Lee.
You should divide your novel into four parts and aim to read one part each week.
hrsbstaff.ednet.ns.ca /engramja/novel_study/10ind_novel_study2_2003.doc   (748 words)

  
 Corey Lesson Plans, Teaching Guides, Novel Units, and Study Guides for middle and high school teachers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Corey Lesson Plans, Teaching Guides, Novel Units, and Study Guides for middle and high school teachers
Lesson Plans, Teacher's Guides, Novel Unit Plans, Study Guides, and more
Literature Lesson Plans: Author Last Name is: Corey
www.litplans.com /author.htm?a=Corey   (48 words)

  
 International Readings at Harbourfront   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Now in its 29th year, the Harbourfront Reading Series is one of the oldest and most admired public reading programmes in the world.
The Series is famous for bringing the most exciting Canadian and international writers to Toronto, and 2003 thus far has included extraordinary events with Nicholson Baker, Pico Iyer, Pierre Berton, Andrew Pyper, Deborah Joy Corey, Kristen den Hartog and Barbara Gowdy.
We are pleased to present below our updated event list for Spring 2003, so your readers/listeners/viewers can peruse and book ahead.
www.readings.org /news/030312_advisory.html   (412 words)

  
 Image: Art, Faith, Mystery
Something Wicked This Way Comes, a novel by Ray Bradbury
"On Deborah Joy Corey" by Pamela Painter from Ploughshares Fall 1998
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www.imagejournal.org /studyguide/27/corey_fiction.asp   (317 words)

  
 Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer ($2,500): Established at the bequest of John hirsch, founder of the Manitoba Theatre Company, to be presented annually to the most promising Manitoba writer.
Winners: 1998 Deborah Keahey; 1997 Miriam Toews; 1996 Ian ross; 1995 Elise moore; 1994 David bergen; 1993 Patrick O'Connell; 1992 Margaret sweatman.
Le Prix Littéraire des Caisses Populaires du Manitoba ($1,000): Awarded biennially to the author whose published book (fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction) or produced play is the best French language work by a Manitoban.
www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm   (8100 words)

  
 Town of Dexter, Maine * Abbott Memorial Library - March 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
McNaught, Judith - Someone to watch over me
Schupack, Deborah - The Boy on the bus
Critser, Greg - Fat Land : how Americans became the fattest people in the world
www.dextermaine.org /library/0303.html   (159 words)

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