Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. And she comes to it so differently than them - it's in her. "I almost didn't finish this book. All Rights Reserved. this story made me cry. Her words, her turn of phrase, her sweet sentence construction, it is as precise and expertly sculpted as with a sculptor’s chisel or a surgeon’s scalpel. And I haven't read this kind of interaction with the land and landscape and weather and flora and fauna since Conrad, Melville and McCarthy. ""...this summer of 1975 took on the mythical quality of a cloudless summer before the outbreak of war, or before the onset of the kind of restlessness, social, spiritual, that remakes the world. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Publisher: McClelland & Stewart.
The sharpest knife enters your flesh with hardly more than a red line—and finds its target. LATE NIGHTS ON AIR is a literary gem, written from an omniscient point-of-view with love and care for its several main characters, who have all been turned and polished so that all of their facets and flaws are revealed under the light of careful and appreciative reading.
This time the place is Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, on a huge lake I’d never heard of. 0771038119 There is much to appreciate in Hay's Late Nights on Air....the writing and most especially her exquisite way of writing truly believable characters and circumstances.
The heart. Yet soft. Here the sadness comes from characters who have moved to the middle of nowhere not to make it in the oil rush, but rather to get away from something or because they failed in the “outside” world.
On the shortest night of the year, a golden evening without end, Dido climbed the wooden steps to Pilot’s Monument on … I finished and was immediately digging back to find passages I loved. I laughed and I cried and I marvelled and I kept reading in one long sitting.
And I haven't read this kind of interaction with the land and landscape and weather and flora and fauna since Conrad, Melville and McCarthy. or "To the Blogs family, Resolute Bay. Hay calls it a book "about the romance of the disembodied voice." —Globe and Mail.
Mom and baby are doing well and say hi. The novel reminded me of Charles Baxter’s fiction: odd relationships, a nice slow pace, a deep sadness. Welcome back.
September 18th 2007
Her words, her turn of phrase, her sweet sentence construction, it is as precise and expertly sculpted as with a sculptor’s chisel or a surgeon’s scalpel. i mean... what?
There are no ragged edges here. I didn't understand it and did not feel any connection to the characters. Like so many novels that don’t depend on plot, for me this one goes downhill a bit when the novel shifts from Yellowknife to the tundra further north and then pulls together the loose ends. Think of Elizabeth Hay as a gentle murderer.
Jannie had her baby.
It was a print out of messages that CBC used to read over the air -- things like " Joe Blogs, get in touch with the RCMP at Fort Rae for an urgent message from your brother Ron." First television drove the industry into the music corner, and then corporate consolidation, rightwing cranks and shock jocks homogenized the dial to death. A very good read.A character in Elizabeth's book describes good script writing as having simplicity, directness, and intimacy. You’ve heard it said, “hurts so good.” About the writing style of Elizabeth Hay, I can say: cuts so soft. Then Ms. Hay caught me with something so "Northern Canada" that I was immediately hooked. I'm surprised that this novel won the Giller Prize - one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards. A proposed gasline runs through the story like a guideline of place to cut.
If there is a Late Nights on Air SparkNotes, Shmoop guide, or Cliff Notes, you can find a link to each study guide below. Whether we love or hate the main characters by the end of the book, we also know them as well as our own skin. i don't tend to cry when i read books. Either way it is a beautiful book.This book made me want to pack my bags, catch the first plane to the Yukon, and leave everything behind.
Her sense of the give and take in relationships, friendships, attraction, pain, aging, failing and happy compromise is incredible. Late Nights on Air is love story of the misfit, love story of the northern wild, love story of life, lived however we manage.
Elizabeth Hay is a new writer to me, and this novel fits right in with my recent literary trips to Canada. This test of relationships is really relatable because it could be everyone's story even though the adventure may not be quite so daring-- very thought provoking ! i fear i will never look at an oh henry!
this review is for the audio edition, narrated by the author.this review is for the audio edition, narrated by the author. "You’ve heard it said, “hurts so good.” About the writing style of Elizabeth Hay, I can say: cuts so soft. “She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.”“You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.”
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