The Work of Edie Clark
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My BooksStates of Grace: Encounters with Real YankeesThe new book is here and ready to be shipped to you. This is what appears on the back cover of States of Grace:
Here are some of the most delightful, eccentric, honest-to-God Yankees you'll ever meet. New England's most beloved columnist, Edie Clark, paints each of their portraits with the soul of a poet and the warm heart of a friend. Once you read this unforgettable book, you'll feel they're your friends, too. --Sy Montgomery, author of Birdology and The Good Good Pig To read Edie Clark’s profiles is to enter into the truest New England. She meets people with her heart open, and, thus, a vast array of characters open theirs. You will not forget the people you meet in these pages. And you will understand why Edie Clark has long been the writer Yankee’s readers feel is a part of their family. -- Mel Allen, Editor, Yankee magazine In these pages, meet: • A woman who’d never made a quilt before but who dreamed a pattern one night and spent the next six months stitching together her dream pattern, the first of many she has created entirely by hand and then has given away, with love. • A man who took photographs of his hometown, Hartford, Ct., for most of his life using a Brownie reflex camera and creating what amounted to a complete architectural history of his beloved city. The photos are now in the permanent collection at the Hartford Public Library. • A man who, in 1935, bought a house and five acres of hayfield in central Maine and promised his wife they would someday have “gardens we can walk through.” Both of them are gone now but his extensive gardens have been saved as a national treasure that thousands walk through each summer. • A Rhode Island man who conquered his retirement boredom by creating an entire miniature village out of discarded aluminum cans. The village (every house is furnished inside) is now in a museum of historic preservation in Newport. • An eighty-eight-year-old lobsterwoman and shepherdess who kept her sheep on an island and her heart in a lighthouse. • A man in love with grass • The oldest newspaper columnist on earth Of these people, Clark says in her introduction: “(these are) all ostensibly ordinary people but who had one central passion that drove their lives. Eventually, I realized that they were, each of them, living in a state of grace: there was one deep and abiding passion at the center of their lives which endowed them with an elegance and guided them with generosity and good will.” Each story, many of which were originally published in Yankee magazine, is augmented with an update. If you would like to order a copy of this book, click the link to the left or make out a check to Edie Clark for $23.95 ($19.95 + $4 s+h) and send to PO Box 112, Dublin NH 03444. The Place He MadeThe new edition of The Place He Made is available. The book, originally published in both hardcover and paperback, was declared out of print in 1999 but people have never stopped writing to me in search of this book. Based on this continued interest, I've produced a re-issue of the book and written an afterword which expresses some of what happened as a result of this book. I never expected the kind of response that came when the book was published. Apparently there is a need for books that speak honestly about the experience of losing the battle to cancer as well as the experience of losing a spouse when your lives are still young. It is nearly twenty years since Paul's death yet his special way of being continues to inspire me and encourage me. What has surprised me most is that his special way of being has also inspired others through this book. I never quite realized the extraordinary power of the printed word until The Place He Made was published. The entire experience has taught me a great deal about loss and about grief. Ordering information is on the left of this page.
Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers: Kitchen Stories from Mary's FarmLife-saving iced tea, Indian pudding “as it should be,” dandelion wine made in the days when flowers meant peace, roast lamb on an Icelandic farm, baked beans from those who know best, cod cheeks and ale, and a trip to spring that ends with a meal of shad, asparagus and rhubarb pie. Take this journey from the early 1960s all the way to the present and visit all kinds of kitchens on the way through the decades. In Saturday Beans and Sunday Suppers, you’ll discover a delicious collection of thoughts, memories and recipes, all about food, written by one of New England’s most treasured writers. Here, food is not just sustenance but life and spirit and communion all in one. Guaranteed to inspire an appetite, for life and for good food, happily prepared.
224 pages, softcover, $14.95 plus $4 s+h ($18.95 total).
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Selected WorksFiction
The Fox (fiction)
An encounter with a sick fox brings a young woman to the heart of her grief My Articles
Journey into the Heart of Lyme Disease
Personal experience with Lyme Disease Andre's Odyssey
Renowned short story writer, Andre Dubus, reflects on the accident that cost him his legs. Finding Sophie
A trip to Poland discovers a beloved family friend Eight Seasons, or Three
An elegy for the master of the short story. First Foliage
Fall comes to The County Audrey's Story
Thousands seek healing from this innocent, comatose child. Bibliography
A complete listing of articles published since 1978 Books in Progress
What There Was Not To Tell
A book about my parents. |
