The Victory of Geraldine Gull

Shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General''s Award for Fiction

Set in a Swampy Cree community on the western shore of Hudson Bay, The Victory of Geraldine Gull is about the struggle for survival. In prose as clear as a northern lake, Joan Clark weaves together biblical symbolism of the flood and salvation with native myth and legend, while offering a message of hope and the dignity of self-determination.

Born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Joan Clark spent her youth in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. She attended Acadia University for its drama program, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree with English major in 1957. Clark lived in Alberta for two decades and attended Edmonton''s University of Alberta. She and Edna Alford started the literary journal Dandelion in that province in the mid-1970s. She eventually returned to Atlantic Canada, settling in Newfoundland. Her novel, The Victory of Geraldine Gull, was shortlisted for the 1988 Governor General''s Award for Fiction. Clark lives in St. John''s, Newfoundland and Labrador.