Snow Road Station

2024-04-16 Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Release : 2024-04-16
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 346/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Snow Road Station written by Elizabeth Hay. This book was released on 2024-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love’s capacity to surprise us at any age. In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat into her past and arrives at Snow Road Station, a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario. The actor is Lulu Blake, in her sixties now, a sexy, seemingly unfooled woman well-versed in taking risks. Out of work, humiliated, she enters the last act of her life wondering what she can make of her diminished self. In Snow Road Station she decides she is through with drama—but drama, it turns out, isn’t through with her. She thinks she wants peace. It turns out she wants more. Looming in the background is that autumn’s global financial meltdown, while in the foreground family and friends animate a round of weddings, sap harvests, love affairs, and personal turmoil. At the centre of it all is the friendship between Lulu and Nan. As the two women contemplate growing old, they surrender certain long-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they’ve made and the messy feelings that kept them apart for decades.

SNOW ROAD STATION.

2024

Author : ELIZABETH. HAY
Release : 2024
Genre :
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 701/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book SNOW ROAD STATION. written by ELIZABETH. HAY. This book was released on 2024. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Snow Road Station

2024-08-15 Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Release : 2024-08-15
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 711/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Snow Road Station written by Elizabeth Hay. This book was released on 2024-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Yorker best book of 2023 'Joyous and lyrical, Snow Road Station is an ode to the North, in fact an ode to life itself, and all its possibilities' Mary Lawson, bestselling author of A Town Called Solace 'Like Elizabeth Strout with Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, Hay has created a fictional world to which she returns, to great effect' Literary Review, Canada 'An exquisitely etched coming-of-middle-age story' Ann-Marie Macdonald, bestselling author of Fayne ________________________________________________________________ A pitch-perfect story of love and female friendship from the Giller prize-winning author of Late Nights on Air. In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat to Snow Road Station - a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario. Lulu Blake, sexy and seemingly unfooled, is now in her sixties. Out of work, humiliated, she enters the last act of her life wondering what she can make of her diminished self. She believes she is through with theatre and drama - but drama is not through with her. At the centre of the novel is the relationship between Lulu and her lifelong friend Nan. As the two women contemplate growing older, they surrender certain hard-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they have made. ________________________________________________________________ What readers LOVE about SNOW ROAD STATION... 'Beautifully written' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'A very human story that tells us you don't have to be perfect and it's okay to fail' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Snow Road Station is an utter delight! A breathtaking setting, unforgettable characters, and a compelling plot pushing the reader forward with her lovely prose' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Elizabeth Hay writes evocative books that delve deep into the human character, and Snow Road Station is no exception' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Beautifully written, interesting characters, strong themes. Drenched in Canadiana from the hard work of making maple syrup to snowy landscapes ... Elizabeth Hay reminds me to look, to see, to marvel at beauty that surrounds me' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Late Nights on Air

2010-08-20 Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Release : 2010-08-20
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Late Nights on Air written by Elizabeth Hay. This book was released on 2010-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay. 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. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this award–winning 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.

In Search of Snow

1999 Fiction

Author : Luis Alberto Urrea
Release : 1999
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 152/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book In Search of Snow written by Luis Alberto Urrea. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hot Arizona desert of the late 1950s, Mike McGurk comes of age in one big, riotous gush. Trapped pumping gas at a desolate roadstop, he yearns for things he has never known: love, hope, and the soft, white calmness of snow. Mike's world is filled with a menagerie of quirky characters, who cope with the weight of their unfulfilled dreams with bravado, humor, and violence. Mike trades snappy insults with his macho father, Texaco Turk McGurk, a moustachioed amateur boxer and self-proclaimed war hero who is unable to talk about love. Mike lusts after Lily, his seductive, poem-writing cousin. He cowers before and then confronts the vicious Ramses, grandson of Mr. Sneezy, the wisecracking Apache. And he is rescued by his best friend, Bobo, who delivers him into the care of the loving and generous Mama and Papa Garcia. In Search of Snow is an explosive coming-of-age adventure, full of hilarious episodes and still, poignant moments. Like a blue-collar Don Quixote, Mike must blow up his windmills before he can set off to find the things he lacks, especially the snow that will temper the passion he has just set aflame.

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