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A carregar... A student of weather (original 2000; edição 2000)por Elizabeth Hay
Informação Sobre a ObraA Student of Weather por Elizabeth Hay (2000)
  
Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Ed_Schneider | May 11, 2020 |  Depth, wisdom, life: it all happens here. A decent piece of literature without drama or extreme tragedy. (  ) LDVoorberg | Dec 3, 2017 | A lot of the book is about the uneasy relationship between citizens of those two provinces. Norma Joyce Hardy is Saskatchewan: mercurial, productive and yet needy. Maurice Dove is Ontario: sophisticated, confident, self-absorbed. Loved it. (  ) AJBraithwaite | Aug 14, 2017 | I am generally facinated when stories open in a geographical region with which I am unfamiliar, and this one did - in Saskatchewan during the Dust Bowl years of the Depression. The word pictures were strong and evocative, both during this time and at the end of the book when the heroine returns in the 1970's. The well-crafted story centers around Nora Joyce, a darkly unattractive, introspective child who is little loved and works hard to construct a world for herself where it doesn't matter. She is motherless, and lives in a household consisting of her beautiful sister, Lucinda, her father Ernest (who blames her for the death of her twin brother Norman), and occasional long visits from a traveling author-naturalist, Maurice. The story falters in the last quarter, and the ending is unsatisfying -- almost as if the author ran out of things in Nora Joyce's life to share. I kept looking for an epilogue, but no. (  ) wareagle78 | Feb 3, 2014 | The first half of this novel captivated me with its interesting story and gorgeous writing. However, later half of the book covers Norma Joyce's adult years in Ottawa and New York City, and I didn't really get the point. (  ) Nickelini | May 6, 2013 |
 But A Student of Weather is not simply a well-wrought example of a fine CanLit premise (Two Prairie Sisters in Love with the Same Man). The plot itself is wide in both physical and emotional geography, and textured enough that the book moves beyond the spare and elegant. . . . Add the seductive incisiveness of the writing, and it’s nearly impossible not to gobble the book whole, even when you want to savour every bite.  These excesses don't spoil ''A Student of Weather,'' which, like its maddening characters, is nearly impossible not to like. Even as a child, Norma Joyce ''has to make everybody uncomfortable.'' Hay seems to share that impulse -- and in this disquieting novel, she succeeds. 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—by a dramatic first novel from an award-winning Ottawa journalist and short-story writer (Small Change, 1997). In stunningly precise and suggestive prose, Hay tells a story of obsession and rivalry neatly summarized at the start: “Two sisters fell down a well, and the well was Maurice Dove.”
From some accidents of love and weather we never quite recover. At the worst of the Prairie dust bowl of the 1930s, a young man appears out of a blizzard and forever alters the lives of two sisters. There is the beautiful, fastidious Lucinda, and the tricky and tenacious Norma Joyce, at first a strange, self-possessed child, later a woman who learns something of self-forgiveness and of the redemptive nature of art. Their rivalry sets the stage for all that follows in a narrative spanning over thirty years, beginning in Saskatchewan and moving, in the decades following the war, to Ottawa and New York City. Disarming, vividly told, unforgettable, this is a story about the mistakes we make that never go away, about how the things we want to keep vanish and the things we want to lose return to haunt us. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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