by Paul St Pierre many years ago. 5 stars: 16: 4 stars: 13: 3 stars: 8: 2 stars: 1: 1 star: 1: LibraryThing Review User Review - quondame - LibraryThing. Late Nights on Air begins with Harry falling in love with the sound of Dido's voice. Amazing. Late Nights on Air. The four main characters journey together and separately and each changes. seriously beautiful with her prose. Late Nights On Air is Elizabeth Hay’s Giller Prize winning novel that uses Yellowknife in the 1970s to explore the complex relationships between staff members at the local CBC radio station. The book's very title, and its theme, evoked memories of other more obscure but favorite albums like Katy Moffatt's. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. Aaah, like the tiny beautiful artic flowers, this is a finely woven tale. The new girl - Gwen Syman - had been told in Toronto to try the hinterland due to her lack of experience and so had traveled 3000 miles to Yellowknife. Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2012. The story begins in the summer of 1975 and continues in the following year after Dido's abrupt departure, when several of the characters make a life changing journey into the Barrens following the journey made by an ill-fated British explorer who they admire. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. And I did appreciate these fictional folks, make no mistake, all of whom worked at a small Northern Services radio station in Yellowknife, … ‎The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs . Late Nights on Air Jessica He Marxist Lens Sub-thesis #2 - Due to peer pressure, sometimes people are forced to make curtain choices instead of their own choice. Elizabeth Hay is a new writer to me, and this novel fits right in with my recent literary trips to Canada. It was a print out of messages that CBC used to read over the air -- things like " Joe Blogs, get in touch with the RCMP at Fort Rae for an urgent message from your brother Ron." [ if you *must* know, and apparently you do, hay includes a scene in which she describes one character's penis, through another character's feelings about it. And there is also the subtheme of an ongoing study by a federally appointed judge of the effects a planned pipeline would have on the fragile arctic ecosystem. This is one of those books that is beautiful in every way. The pacing is glacial, the characters uninteresting, and there's no real plot; the whole book is a collection of situations which happen to the cast, and since we have no real reason to care about any of them there's little to make us want to turn the page. ISBN: 0771038119. The novel is set at a radio station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. 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