Late Nights on Air: A Novel Paperback Elizabeth Hay

from porch_reader

I picked this book up when I was in Montreal. It is a Giller Prize Winner and was also on the staff recommendation shelf. It even has a sticker on the front that says, "Le choix d'Heather." I didn't meet Heather while I was there (although I did get a recommendation from another employee on that ...

from nursejane

A few thoughts: I found this book very romantic in a less conventional sense... Reminds me of Joni Mitchell's Case of You song. You might have to love Canada to love this book (though you may not love this book even if you do love Canada). Some passages were a little heavy handed... but I think t...

from DoraG

Following the intimate interrelationships of a group working at the local radio station in Yellowknife. This book has a placid, easy pacing to it, allowing you to dip your toe in, as it were, to the lives and insights of the characters. I felt compelled to read this book, and thought about it oft...

from TimBazzett

Where to even begin? Elizabeth Hay's eloquence and utter humanity has nearly struck me dumb. I loved this book, LATE NIGHTS ON AIR, so much that I didn't want it to end. Canadian writers have fascinated me for years, maybe because I'm always so amazed that many great and well-known authors in Can...

from katylit

I truly enjoyed this book. Elizabeth Hay's writing captured the dichotomy of the Arctic, it's beauty and danger, how fragile the environment is, yet how enduring remnants from the past can be. The characters of the book were as fragile and enduring as their environment. This is a book I will defi...