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A Student of Weather

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A Student of Weather

Auteur(s): Elizabeth Hay
Narrateur(s): Sochi Fried
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From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art. Their rivalry sets the stage for all that follows in a narrative spanning over 30 years, beginning in Saskatchewan and moving, in the decades following the war, to Ottawa and New York City.

Disarming, vividly told, unforgettable, this is a story about the mistakes we make that never go away, about how the things we want to keep vanish and the things we want to lose return to haunt us.

©2000 Elizabeth Hay (P)2018 Emblem Editions
Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction littéraire Historique

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2000, Scotiabank Giller Prize, Nominated

"This is a book to break (and warm) your heart over and over.... Hay's language is precise, economical and evocative. In A Student of Weather, every word counts." (Ottawa Citizen)

"Hay exposes the beauty simmering in the heart of harsh settings with an evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx.... I was so moved by Norma Joyce's painful, haunting journey to wisdom - and Elizabeth Hay's telling of it - that I wanted to go back to the beginning and start again." (The Washington Post)

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loved the narrator's voice, the descriptions. would highly recommend. evoked such beautiful sense of place and time.

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Beautifully written, narration very good. However, I found the characters unlikable, I waited for redemption but found it overall dissatisfying. Just fell flat for me.
But Elizabeth Hay's writing is beautiful, I kept listening for that reason.

Beautifully written

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