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Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for
Non-fiction A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about
the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a
prizewinning author. From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most
celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about
the drama of her parents' end, and the longer drama of being their
daughter. Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an
artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled
schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called
difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them
in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.
Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". All Things Consoled
takes you inside the massacre as Hay's ferociously independent
parents become increasingly dependent on her. With remarkable wit
and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age
turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives
at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of
herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid
giants in her life.
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 a canoe trip
four of them make into the Arctic wilderness, 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,
threatening to displace Native people from their land. 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 and laced with dark humour.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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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, and is already garnering
interest abroad.
"On the shortest night of the year, a golden evening without end,
Dido climbed the wooden stepsto Pilot's Monument on top of the
great Rock that formed the heart of old Yellowknife. In the
Netherlands the light was long and gradual too, but more meadowy,
more watery, or else hazier, depending on where you were. . . .
Here, it was subarctic desert, virtually unpopulated, and the light
was uniformly clear.
On the road below, a small man in a black beret was bending over
his tripod just as her father used to bend over his tape recorder.
Her father's voice had become the wallpaper inside her skull, he'd
made a home for himself there as improvised and unexpected as these
little houses on the side of the Rock -- houses with histories of
instability, of changing from gambling den to barber shop to sheet
metal shop to private home, and of being moved from one part of
town to another since they had no foundations."
--"From Late Nights On Air"
"From the Hardcover edition."
This is a novel about movie love. Set in Ottawa in the 1990s, it is
the quixotic tale of tall, thin Harriet Browning, inflamed by the
movies she was deprived of as a child. Harriet is a woman so
saturated with the movies, seen repeatedly and swallowed whole,
that she no longer fits into this world. Bent on seeing everything
she has missed, she forms a Friday night movie club with three
companions-of-the-screen: a boy who loves Frank Sinatra, a girl
with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named Dinah for Dinah
Shore. Breaking in upon this quiet backwater, in time with the
devastating ice storm of 1998, come two refugees from Hollywood,
the faded widow of a famous screenwriter and her movie-expert
stepson. They are Harsh Reality. With them come blackouts,
arguments, accidents, illness and sudden death. But what chance
does real life stand when we can watch movies instead? What hope
does real love have when movie love, in all its brief intensity, is
an easy option? In this comedy of secondhand desire, movies and
movie lovers come first.
An award-winning collection of linked stories about women and
friendship by the acclaimed author of A Student of Weather.. Small
Change is a superbly crafted collection of linked stories that
navigate the difficult realm of friendship, charting its beginnings
and endings, its intimacies and betrayals, its joys and
humiliations. A mother learns something of the nature of love from
watching her young daughter as she falls in and out of favor with a
neighborhood girl. An intricate story of two women reveals a
friendship held together by the steely bonds of passivity.With
trenchant insight, uncommon honesty, and dark humor, Elizabeth Hay
probes the precarious bonds that exist between friends. The result
is an emotionally raw and provocative collection of stories that
will resonate with readers long after the final page. Small Change
was a finalist for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium
Award, and the Rogers Communication Writer's Trust Fiction Prize.
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