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Review excerpt for Garbo Laughs: The Toronto Star

Apr 27, 2011 | GL-review, Postings, Press Coverage, Review

“Thoughtful, smart, sardonically funny, Ottawa’s Elizabeth Hay has created her own niche in Canadian fiction by fastening her intelligence on the real stuff—the bumps and glories in love, kinship, friendship.” —The Toronto Star

Review excerpt for Garbo Laughs: The Globe and Mail

Apr 27, 2011 | GL-review, Postings, Press Coverage, Review

“A novel so subtle and so wonderfully layered that it resembles a black-and-white movie of a certain era, full of elegance, aura and wit.” —The Globe and Mail

Review excerpt for Garbo Laughs: The Guardian

Apr 27, 2011 | GL-review, Postings, Press Coverage, Review

“For all its movie references, Canadian Elizabeth Hay’s second novel [Garbo Laughs] is a very literary book. Its story—of family and friends, love and death—unravels slowly while its characters are lovingly fleshed out …. From start to finish, this book is...

Curled Up With a Good Book review of Garbo Laughs

Apr 27, 2011 | GL-review, Postings, Press Coverage, Review

Elizabeth Hay’s second novel, Garbo Laughs, is a movie fanatic’s dream. But I may be biased. I am a self-confessed movie junkie and insanely passionate about books. Hay serves up mountains of film and literary references that kept me riveted page after page. Her...

The New York Times review of Garbo Laughs

Apr 27, 2011 | GL-review, Postings, Press Coverage, Review

THERE are many addictions that can beset us in modern life: work, food, exercise, sex, shopping, the Internet, video games. And, as we’re reminded in Elizabeth Hay’s witty new novel, there are the movies. In Garbo Laughs—a reference to the way Ninotchka,...

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