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Norma Joyce and Lucinda are two sisters who live with their widowed father on a farm in the dust bowl of Saskatchewan in the depression era. Norma Joyce, the younger, is as dark and fiercely intelligent as Lucinda is fair, beautiful and saintly. When Maurice, a young student, arrives from Ottawa to stay with them and study the region's strange weather patterns both girls fall in love, but Norma Joyce becomes irretrievably - and unrequitedly - obsessed. The rivalry in love sets the stage for all that follows in the lives of the two sisters, until eventually we discover the facts of a childhood betrayal significant enough to devastate everyone involved. Disarming, vividly told and unforgettable, this is a story about the mistakes we make when young that never go away, about how the things we long to keep vanish, and those we want to forget always return to haunt us.
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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 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 Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career. She lives in Ottawa.
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