LATE NIGHTS ON AIR, A Novel by Elizabeth Hay (2008 1st Ed.)
LATE NIGHTS ON AIR, A Novel by Elizabeth Hay (2008 1st Ed.)
Author: Elizabeth Hay. Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, ON., 2008, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with beautiful fold-out style covers, and deckle-edged paper, and a small bump on bottom-spine-edge. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 inch, 364 pages.
LATE NIGHTS ON AIR, is filled with unforgettable characters,and vividly evoked settings, where in this new novel, Elizabeth Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story.
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.
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