Norma Joyce is young, dark and homely but tough as prairie grass; Lucinda is fair and dutiful, and stands between Norma and the bitter anger of their father. In the drought-ravaged prairies of 1930s Saskatchewan, two sisters fall in love with the same man in a saga of unrequited 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 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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- PublisherWomens Press
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 070434744X
- ISBN 13 9780704347441
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages384
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