Posted on 22/09/07
Tuning in to the North
LATE NIGHTS ON AIRBy Elizabeth HayMcClelland & Stewart,364 pages, $32.99The Arctic is hot, but I doubt that is why accomplished Canadian novelist Elizabeth Hay wrote a novel set in Yellowknife and the Barrens in the mid-1970s. In Late Nights on Air, Hay has returned to a city and landscape she knew in the 1970s. Returned in her imagination, that is; she has not actually been there since the 1980s. Which makes her achievement in this quiet, elegiac book even more astounding than it is simply in the reading.
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