Late Nights on Air
A Novel
$28.15
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
11 September 2012
Summary
Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in Yellowknife, Northern Canada. There, 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 characters who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781847247872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1847247873 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Hay |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 11 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 124mm x 24mm |
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Hay exposes the beauty simmering in the heart of harsh settings with an evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx - Washington Post.
A superb portrait of unremarkable lives, and a beautiful prose poem to vast open spaces’ Joanna Kavenna, Spectator. * Spectator *The kind of emotional intelligence that marks all great literature’ Lesley McDowell, Scotsman. * Scotsman *Funny, beautifully written and altogether wonderful - The Times. * The Times *Hay exposes the beauty simmering in the heart of harsh settings with an evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx - Washington Post. * Washington Post *This novel has it all - tales of lust and lngings and hidden pasts, combined with utterly loveable characters..Hay’s intelligent style makes this a summer must-read - Woman. * Woman *
About The Author
Elizabeth Hay
ELIZABETH HAY is the author of the #1 bestseller Late Nights on Air (2008), which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other works include Alone in the Classroom (2012) and His Whole Life (2015). In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award, and for All Things Consoled she was the winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Award for Non-fiction. She lives in Ottawa, Canada.
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