A Student of Weather

Hay, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 0864923252 ISBN 13: 9780864923257

Publisher: BTC Audiobooks, 2002

Synopsis

In the Prairie Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a stranger walks out of a storm and forever alters the lives of two sisters, the strange and intense Norma-Joyce and the beautiful Lucinda. Their rivalry for Maurice Dove, a student studying weather on the Prairies, sets the stage for a narrative spanning more than thirty years, beginning in Saskatchewan and moving, in the decades following the war, to Ottawa and New York City. Although Norma-Joyce is only a child when Maurice Dove drops into her life, she develops a fixation for him that lasts a lifetime. Hay's writing is spare yet richly textured, dark and erotic. The physical and emotional landscapes she portrays evoke surprises, tragic and comic, and teach us about the lasting imprint of first love.

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From the Back Cover:

In the opening scene of this luminous story, a handsome stranger emerges out of a storm in the midst of the Prairie Dust Bowl, setting off a 30-year rivalry. A finalist for the 2000 Giller Prize, A Student of Weather demonstrates that some accidents in life are note easily forgotten. When Maurice Doves arrives at the Hardy family homestead to study its strange weather patterns, eight-year-old Norma Joyce falls madly in love with him. So does her sister, Lucinda. In painterly prose akin to that of Alice Hoffman and Isabel Allende, Hay describes Norma Joyce's journey from the Prairies of the 1930s to post-war Ottawa and New York. In this celebrated novel, Elizabeth Hay tells a dark, erotic, richly textured story of obsessive love. Narrated by stage and television actor Jennifer Overton, this audio edition of A Student of Weather lays bare an emotional landscape full of surprise and contradiction.

About the Author:

Elizabeth Hay was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, the daughter of a high school principal and a painter. She grew up in small Ontario towns and attended the University of Toronto. She worked as a broadcaster on CBC Radio and then as a freelance documentary maker in Latin America. She taught writing at New York University before returning to Canada. She has published two collections of short stories and two books of creative non-fiction.

About this edition

• Publisher: BTC Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0864923252
• ISBN 13: 9780864923257
• Binding: Audio Cassette