Apr 27, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Review
“Top-flight fiction keeps arriving from Canada with remarkable frequency these days. This time, the high standards set by Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, and others are matched—and then some … Brilliant.” —Kirkus Reviews
Apr 27, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Review
“Enormously moving … An unsentimental testament to resilience and mettle … A triumphant novel.” —Newsday
Apr 27, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Review
Full of contrasts, light and dark, truth and deception, love and rejection, this elegiac novel is written in illuminating prose. The story unfolds through the eyes of the younger of two motherless sisters. Norma Joyce, a square peg who resists any attempt to fit in...
Apr 27, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Review
“There has never been a sister, lover, or daughter like Elizabeth Hay’s haunted Norma Joyce. A Student of Weather is as evocative as Jane Campion’s The Piano in its erotic obsessions and relentless quest for love and art. A sensual treasure.” –Linda Svendsen “Hay...
Apr 26, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Alone in the Classroom, Captivity Tales, Crossing the Snow Line, Garbo Laughs, Late Nights on Air, Reader Resources, Small Change, The Only Snow in Havana
1 – How did your first book change your life? I was living in New York City, and shortly before Crossing the Snow Line came out from Black Moss Press, the poet Fred Wah happened to visit me and he warned me not to expect much and he was right. It was a useful...
Apr 26, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Alone in the Classroom, Captivity Tales, Crossing the Snow Line, Garbo Laughs, His Whole Life, Late Nights on Air, Reader Resources, Small Change, The Only Snow in Havana
Elizabeth Hay in Conversation with The New Quarterly Magazine, originally published in spring 2009. The original item is published here with permission of the magazine. Elizabeth Hay – In Conversation With Hannah Albert I began this conversation with Elizabeth...