His Whole Life - Softcover

Elizabeth Hay

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ISBN 10: 0857055445 ISBN 13: 9780857055446

Publisher: Quercus Publishing, 2017

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His Whole Life

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Hay is the bestselling, award-winning author of Late Nights on Air, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other works include A Student of Weather (finalist for the Giller Prize and the Ottawa Book Award), Garbo Laughs (winner of the Ottawa Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General's Award), and Small Change (stories). In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives and writes in Ottawa.

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A touching portrait of a sensitive, watchful boy growing up and understanding that life can be wonderful, but also full of uncertainties and loss ... Elizabeth Hay vividly describes the landscape and seasons in her native country -- Carla McKay * Daily Mail * It is all so true - true to human nature and families and life. His Whole Life is about a boy growing up, but in it readers will find themes, musings and quotes that resonate and strike home with their accuracy and insight. His Whole Life is a lovely novel -- Tracy Sherlock * Vancouver Sun * Hay creates enormous spaces with few words, and makes the reader party to the journey, listening, marvelling * Globe and Mail * [She has an] evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx * Washington Post * It is all so true -- true to human nature and families and life . . . His Whole Life is a lovely novel. * Ottawa Citizen * How lucky we are to have her, this writer who stares down the tough issues in life - whether domestic or political - with such wit and grace. There is much at play here - a country and a marriage that may not survive, sins that may or may not be forgiven. Yet Hay's luminous prose - and a last scene that soars right off the page - is transcendent, redeeming the best and worst things -- Nancy Wigston * Toronto Star * It's a gorgeous book . . . She plays beautifully with the metaphor of politics, but it's not a political book . . . Elizabeth Hay is unquestionably one of the country's great writers. For me, this is her best yet. -- Sean Wilson * CBC Radio * While there's plenty to sink your teeth into ... it's Hay's perceptive writing that shines brightest. There's something magical in the descriptions of the family lake house in Ontario that Nan, George and Jim visit from their home in New York every year. The place takes on a mythic status ... His Whole Life offers a perspective about what it means to be Canadian - in our political history and romantic, wild habitats. Archetypal stories, yes, but compelling ones. -- Dilia Narduzzi * Macleans * Hay's prose is as fluid and surprising as ever. Settings come alive through her signature combination of poetry and simplicity.. . . Read this book for the unmitigated beauty of Hay's language, and the quality of her storytelling. * Quill and Quire *

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