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Late Nights on Air
Elizabeth Hay
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Description for Late Nights on Air
Paperback. A moving and powerful study of love, rivalry and friendship in a remote radio station in the furthest reaches of the Canadian North. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 224.
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 what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on ... Read more
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 what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847247872
SKU
V9781847247872
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About 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 ... Read more
Reviews for Late Nights on Air
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more