Elizabeth Hay
Hardcover | Pages: 364 pages Rating: 3.55 | 10854 Users | 714 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Late Nights on Air |
| ISBN: | 0771038119 (ISBN13: 9780771038112) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Yellowknife,1975(Canada) |
| Literary Awards: | Scotiabank Giller Prize (2007), Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book (2008) |
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The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs.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.
Elizabeth Hay has been compared to Annie Proulx, Alice Hoffman, and Isabel Allende, yet she is uniquely herself. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this new 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.
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| Title | : | Late Nights on Air |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Hay |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 364 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 2007 by McClelland & Stewart |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Contemporary. Literature. Canadian Literature |
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Ratings: 3.55 From 10854 Users | 714 ReviewsCriticism Epithetical Books Late Nights on Air
Like many books set in the north, this is a slow enjoyable book where the landscape is as much s character as any of the people. There are multiple stories being told in this book, some are tragic and some are hopeful. Either way it is a beautiful book.(4.5) I read my first novel by Hay, A Student of Weather, last year. It was wonderfully rewarding even though it took me a month to read. By contrast, I read the Giller Prize-winning Late Nights on Air in half that time. Most of it is set in 19757 in Yellowknife, a small city in Canadas Northwest Territories. Here winter lasts for eight months and you can still meet with snow and frozen lakes in early July. A tight-knit cast gathers around the local radio station: Harry and Gwen, refugees from
this review is for the audio edition, narrated by the author.elizabeth hay spent years working in radio with the CBC, so she totally has the vocal chops to narrate her own work. i have had the pleasure of seeing hay in-person, so knew i would be in for a treat. plus, this is a novel i already love, having read it twice in paper. i was completely transported by listening to the story. though, there was one moment in the book that i, now that it was experienced it again, have decided i must have
Late Nights on Air is so fantastic and nostalgic that it's like opening an old box of Kodachrome slides at an antique shop. This 1970's-set story holds the spirit of Canada perfectly and is certainly worth reading.
I thought this book was a flawed masterpiece. The story of four quirky characters who meet at a radio station in Yellowknife in the 70's is many things: an ode to the Canadian north,a study of radio and the impact it has on isolated communities and individuals, an essay on the effect of development on the environment and indigenous people and at its heart, the tale of star-crossed lovers, Dido an enigmatic and seductive announcer with a fabulous voice and Harry,the hapless station manager with a
Ive been reading a lot of excellent Canadian novels lately. Elizabeth Hay is a new writer to me, and this novel fits right in with my recent literary trips to Canada. This time the place is Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, on a huge lake Id never heard of. The novel reminded me of Charles Baxters fiction: odd relationships, a nice slow pace, a deep sadness. Here the sadness comes from characters who have moved to the middle of nowhere not to make it in the oil rush, but rather to get
Canada's North has always fascinated me, and I enjoy reading fiction and nonfiction about it. Although LATE NIGHTS ON AIR by Elizabeth Hay is a fictional novel set in 1975 in Yellowknife and surrounding areas, it felt like the characters were real and I was with them experiencing life in the remote Northwest Territories and working at the radio station. Elizabeth Hay has worked for CBC Radio in Yellowknife, Winnipeg, and Toronto, so had experience in that setting. I immediately liked Harry Boyd,
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