About this title: It's 1975 when beautiful Dido Paris arrives at the radio station in Yellowknife, a frontier town in the Canadian north. Her enchanting voice disarms hard-bitten broadcaster Harry Boyd and electrifies the station, setting into motion rivalries both professional and sexual. As the drama at the station unfolds, a proposed gas pipeline threatens to rip open the land, inspiring many people to find their voices for the first time. This is the moment before television conquers the north's attention, when the future of the Arctic hangs in the balance. After the snow melts, four members of the radio ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780771040191ISBN:0771040199
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780771038112ISBN:0771038119
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"You have to be Canadian to enjoy this book - a look at the lives of a half-dozen people working at a radio station, presumably CBC, in Yellowknife in the early 70s. While the characters are mildly interesting, the most intriguing aspect of the story is The North itself - geography, climate and culture."
"Elizabeth Hay writes convincingly about loneliness, desperation and isolation in the Yukon. She gives an account of working as a radio broadcaster in a somewhat desolate situation both emotionally and environmentally. Friendships are quirky. The environment is harsh and unforgiving. The winters are long and unrelenting. The read is good!"
"One of my all time favourites, largely because of the setting. I lived in Yellowknife for 9 years, and reada this book a couple of years after I left. Although this book is set in the 60's, a Yellowknife a few decades before my time, I still recognized the natural landscape and the evocative language captured the North for me. Absolutely loved this."
"Very Enjoyable....Take a radio station in Yellowknife, the employees of this radio station (who are all refugees from another life) add in their relationships with eachother. This all leads to a very enjoyable read. Add in a canoe trip described so vividly, that your visions are spectacular. This novel caused me to think alot of the northern remote area of canada, the environment, radio, and life relationships..Well done."
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