Late nights on air / Elizabeth Hay.
Late nights on air / Elizabeth Hay.
By
:
Hay, Elizabeth, 1951-
Publication Date
:
2007
Publication Information
:
Toronto : McCelland & Stewart,
Physical Description
:
363 p.
Subject Term
:
Canadian fiction.
Friendship -- Fiction.
Giller Prize Foundation
Psychological fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Summary
:
"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."
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771038112
9780771038129
9780771040191
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Burin | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Cape St. George | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAY |
Carbonear | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Carmanville | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Cartwright | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAY |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAY |
Harbour Grace | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Labrador City | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAY |
Placentia | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
St. Anthony | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HAY |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT FIC - BASEMENT | Adult Fiction - Basement | FIC HAY |
St. John's - Michael Donovan | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Wabush | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |
Woody Point | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC HAY |