Description
It's 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. She disarms hard-bitten broadcaster Harry Boyd and electrifies the station, setting into motion rivalries both professional and sexual.
As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to rip open the land and inspires many people to find their voices for the first time.This is the moment before television conquers the north's attention, when the fate of the Arctic hangs in the balance.
After the snow melts, members of the radio station take a long canoe trip into the Barrens, a mysterious landscape of lingering ice and infinite light that exposes them to all the dangers of the ever-changing air.
Spare, witty, and dynamically charged, this compelling tale embodies the power of a place and of the human voice to generate love and haunt the memory.
Author: Elizabeth Hay
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781582434803
ISBN10: 1582434808
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to rip open the land and inspires many people to find their voices for the first time.This is the moment before television conquers the north's attention, when the fate of the Arctic hangs in the balance.
After the snow melts, members of the radio station take a long canoe trip into the Barrens, a mysterious landscape of lingering ice and infinite light that exposes them to all the dangers of the ever-changing air.
Spare, witty, and dynamically charged, this compelling tale embodies the power of a place and of the human voice to generate love and haunt the memory.
Author: Elizabeth Hay
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781582434803
ISBN10: 1582434808
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Elizabeth Hay is the author of five books, including Small Change and A Student of Weather. Her books have been shortlisted for a number of awards, including Canada's two most prestigious, The Governor General's Award and the Giller Prize. She recently won the Marian Engle Award for a woman writer in mid-career. She lives in Ottawa.