Cold Starry Night: An Artist's Memoir

by Claire Fejes

Book 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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397550
• ISBN13: 9780945397557
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Captivating Book

To Claire Feyes daughter, thank you! It's a wonderful book! The men and women your mother writes about in Fairbanks are amazing and inspiring. It's a fascinating world, now forever past. I haven't finished the book, but am ordering a copy for a friend who had lived there.

Great Book... one you can read again and again.

I bought this book because it was another true story about the Alaskan frontier. I was pleased to discover that it covered more than the standard, romantic memories of a rugged life in the far north. Claire Fejes wrote a humorous / honest account of the "true" Alaska. It covers the people she met, the struggles she endured, and those things about daily life in frontier Alaska that make it unique. Never been to Alaska? Read this book if you want to "feel" how cold and isolated (even in Fairbanks) it can be; read this book if you want to "feel" how rewarding and wonderful it can be also. I lived in Alaska for 7 years and I will return someday, but until then I will keep this book close at hand, for those times I need a reminder about what makes that lifestyle and location so unique.

powerful and entertaining

I thought it might be interesting to anyone who finds this email to know that I am Claire Fejes's daughter. She passed away in October of 1997 and left a legacy to behold. I re-read this book with new eyes and found more than family history. There is a sense of bravery and awareness that I wish all women had. I am interested in any feedback a reader may have. This book reads easily and was like a drink of pure, cold water.