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Late Nights on Air

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551994313
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Late Nights on Air written by Elizabeth Hay and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this award–winning novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story. Written in gorgeous prose, laced with dark humour, Late Nights on Air is Hay’s most seductive and accomplished novel yet.

Late Nights on Air

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1582434808
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Late Nights on Air written by Elizabeth Hay and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Giller Prize–winning novel from the #1 bestselling author of All Things Consoled. “A pleasure from start to finish” (Toronto Star). It’s 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. She disarms hard–bitten broadcaster Harry Boyd and electrifies the station, setting into motion rivalries both professional and sexual. As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to rip open the land and inspires many people to find their voices for the first time. This is the moment before television conquers the north’s attention, when the fate of the Arctic hangs in the balance. After the snow melts, members of the radio station take a long canoe trip into the Barrens, a mysterious landscape of lingering ice and infinite light that exposes them to all the dangers of the ever–changing air. Spare, witty, and dynamically charged, this compelling tale embodies the power of a place and of the human voice to generate love and haunt the memory. “Hay’s writing is so alluring and her lost souls so endearing that you’ll lean in to catch the story’s delicate developments as these characters shuffle along through quiet desperation and yearning.” —The Washington Post “Hay’s spare, nuanced writing reflects the landscape of northern Canada . . . The novel unfolds as a long, lovely examination of how we learn to see ourselves in the places we choose to live.” —The Associated Press

Late Nights on Air

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780771039850
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Late Nights on Air written by Elizabeth Hay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spectator

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alone in the Classroom

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623651050
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Alone in the Classroom written by Elizabeth Hay and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hay is the winner of the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Prize, and the Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year for her novel Late Nights on Air. Hay's fourth novel, Alone in The Classroom is a Globe and Mail Best Book. In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a struggling student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behavior culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In the process she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious, and unrelated, deaths of two young girls. As the novel moves deeper into their lives, the triangle of principal, teacher, student opens out into other emotional triangles--aunt, niece, lover; mother, daughter, granddaughter--until a sudden, capsizing love thrusts Anne herself into a newly independent life. This spellbinding tale--set in Saskatchewan and the Ottawa Valley--crosses generations and cuts to the bone. It probes the roots of obsessive love and hate, how the hurts and desires of childhood persist and are passed on, as if in the blood. It lays bare the urgency of discovering what we were never told about the past. And it celebrates the process of becoming who we are in a world full of startling connections that lie just out of sight. From the Hardcover edition.

Quill & Quire

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quill & Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All Things Consoled

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 0771039751
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book All Things Consoled written by Elizabeth Hay and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's beloved novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter. Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonficiton. Jean and Gordon Hay were a colourful, formidable pair. Jean, a late-blooming artist with a marvellous sense of humour, was superlatively frugal; nothing got wasted, not even maggoty soup. Gordon was a proud and ambitious schoolteacher with a terrifying temper, a deep streak of melancholy, and a devotion to flowers, cars, words, and his wife. As old age collides with the tragedy of living too long, these once ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on Lizzie, the so-called difficult child. By looking after them in their final decline, she hopes to prove that she can be a good daughter after all. In this courageous memoir, written with tough-minded candour, tenderness, and wit, Elizabeth Hay lays bare the exquisite agony of a family's dynamics—entrenched favouritism, sibling rivalries, grievances that last for decades, genuine admiration, and enduring love. In the end, she reaches a more complete understanding of the most unforgettable characters she will ever know, the vivid giants in her life who were her parents.

Captivity Tales

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921586326
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book Captivity Tales written by Elizabeth Hay and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early non-fiction work by critically acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Hay displays the qualities that have resonated with readers --- the pitch-perfect register of human psychology, the clear, unsentimental yet intimate sentences --- in her bestselling novels "A Student of Weather," "Garbo Laughs," "Late Nights on Air," and "Alone In the Classroom." "Captivity Tales," stories of settlers kidnapped by Indians, are turned on their head in this book about captivity in the city. Stranded in New York with her family, Elizabeth Hay searches for company and finds it in the lives of other Canadians who have come to New York: Inuit visitors in th 19th century, artists like Michael Snow, Joyce Wieland, Glenn Gould and Teresa Stratas. In searching out their stories, she finds a new map, an underworld of memory and connection, which offers a way home. A fresh, engaging exploration of Canadian cultural identity, "Captivity Tales" evokes the desperate need to find yourself by losing yourself, and to return home by escaping from it.

Snow Road Station

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 1039003346
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Snow Road Station written by Elizabeth Hay and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age. In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat into her past and arrives at Snow Road Station, a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario. The actor is Lulu Blake, in her sixties now, a sexy, seemingly unfooled woman well-versed in taking risks. Out of work, humiliated, she enters the last act of her life wondering what she can make of her diminished self. In Snow Road Station she decides she is through with drama—but drama, it turns out, isn’t through with her. She thinks she wants peace. It turns out she wants more. Looming in the background is that autumn’s global financial meltdown, while in the foreground family and friends animate a round of weddings, sap harvests, love affairs, and personal turmoil. At the centre of it all is the friendship between Lulu and Nan. As the two women contemplate growing old, they surrender certain long-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they’ve made and the messy feelings that kept them apart for decades.

His Whole Life

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 9780857055446
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (554 download)

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Download or read book His Whole Life written by Elizabeth Hay and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of his youth. Moving from city to country, summer to winter, wellbeing to illness, the novel charts the deepening bond between mother and son even as the family comes apart. Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story as only Elizabeth Hay could tell it. It draws readers in with its warmth, wisdom, its vivid sense of place, its searching honesty, and nuanced portrait of the lives of one family and those closest to it. Hay explores the mystery of how members of a family can hurt each other so deeply, and remember those hurts in such detail, yet find openings that shock them with love and forgiveness. This is vintage Elizabeth Hay at the height of her powers.

Garbo Laughs

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551994321
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Garbo Laughs written by Elizabeth Hay and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Ottawa Book Award Finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year A Quill & Quire Top Five Canadian Fiction Book of the Year A Maclean’s Top Ten Book of the Year Elizabeth Hay’s runaway national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past. Inflamed by the movies she was deprived of as a child, Harriet Browning forms a Friday-night movie club with three companions-of-the-screen: a boy who loves Frank Sinatra, a girl with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Into this idiosyncratic world, in time with the devastating ice storm of 1998, come two refugees from Hollywood: Harriet’s Aunt Leah, the jaded widow of a screenwriter blacklisted in the 1950s, and her sardonic, often overbearing stepson, Jack. They bring harsh reality and illuminate the pull of family and friendship, the sting of infidelity and revenge, the shock of illness and sudden loss. Poignant, brilliant, and delightfully droll, Garbo Laughs reveals how the dramas of everyday life are sometimes the most astonishing of all.

Small Change

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551994348
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Small Change written by Elizabeth Hay and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These twenty superbly crafted linked stories navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings and ends, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favour with a neighbourhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity. A chance sighting in a library prompts a woman to recall the “unconsummated courtship” she was drawn into by a male colleague. With trenchant insight, uncommon honesty, and dark humour, Elizabeth Hay probes the precarious bonds that exist between friends. The result is an emotionally raw and provocative collection of stories that will resonate with readers long after the final page.

Library Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 670 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Crayon Story

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781467574556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Crayon Story written by Elizabeth Hay and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventure starts when Tess and her mother move into a colorful house on Crayon Court. Being a curious little person, Tess wants to meet her new neighbors. A delightfully friendly group lives on Crayon Court, yet each one warns her not to go to the red house. Finding the answer to "What is so wrong with the red house?" leads Tess to make an unexpected friend, discover some amazing magic, and bring a colorful neighborhood back together again.

Five Seconds to Air

Author : Bob Losure
Publisher : Providence House Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781577361077
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Five Seconds to Air written by Bob Losure and published by Providence House Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Five Seconds to Air, Losure shares his life story with great fun and panache as he chronicles his roots in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his journey to Atlanta to anchor at CNN Headline News, a position he held for eleven years. He brings us face-to-face with some of the stories and events that have shaped our lives, including the Persian Gulf War and the 1989 San Francisco earthquake, as he recounts these events from the inside perspective of the CNN anchor who kept Americans informed while the news broke and unfolded. On a more serious note, Losure shares a very personal battle with cancer and his subsequent chemotherapy.

Men

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Men written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Only Snow in Havana

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Only Snow in Havana written by Elizabeth Hay and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In one of the earliest works by the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, Elizabeth Hay collects a series of reflections on life, identity, history, and love, drifting through her many homes -- Yellowknife, Mexico City, Toronto, and New York City -- to consider Canadian identity. Hay reflects on the idea of being Canadian -- what it means, who we are, how do we act, how do we live -- and compares it to the world around her in stunning detail, drawing the disparate locations together by their connection to the history of the early Canadian fur trade and our hearty adoration of snow. She writes of the heart of a country, the history of a people that live on the brink of identity. Blending memoir, biography, and history in a provocative intensity, Hay’s style and talent shines through in this early work, proving her well on the road to her long and lustrous career."--pub. desc.