A Student of Weather
by Elizabeth Hay
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Author: Elizabeth HayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01
ISBN: 1582431817
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Counterpoint
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Book Review: Weathering family and social relaitionships
Summary: 4 Stars
Most Americans feel we were the only country to suffer the challenges of the 1930's dust bowl, however the reality is that it physically effected Canada's people as well, while it financially devastated many countries in the fall out. The author, Ms. Elizabeth Hay presents a rich and diverse novel taking place mostly in Saskatchewan, Ottawa and Ontario, during these years and after. She concentrated more on a family and how events of those years and before peeled apart the Hardy family like an onion.
This is an intense novel. One young man, by the name of Mr Maurice Dove becomes friends with the surviving family members as he researches weather, plant live and expounds to the family the pearls of wisdom that flow from him to the captive Hardy audience, especially the two your Hardy sisters. As the onion peels. so does this incredible story. Deaths, secrets, underage sex, and heartbreak dominate the beginning. As the real truth becomes obvious, another fallout begins. Mr. Dove manages to establish himself firmly in their lives, to the despair of his family and the Hardy's. Being 23, and the world at his calling, he is just as infatuated by the 9 year old difference in the sister's ages.
This is also a story of both sisters trying to survive during some of the toughest years and later work at solving some of the mysteries that have been hidden from them all their life. It can get a little confusing, paranormal (? )as dreams become real and some are indistinguishable from the truth. One is the rattler that Normal Joyce wrestles with at the end of the novel in the car. Dream, real? What do you think? I am open for anyone 's interpretation!
At times the book reads a little slow, and I expected more than several different outcomes. But that is what reading is about, you just never know how it is going to end.
Summary of A Student of Weather
A brilliant and wonderfully reviewed first novel: the story of two sisters and the man who enters both their lives.During the worst of the prairie dust bowl of the 1930's, a young man appears out of a blizzard, and two sisters' lives are changed forever. Norma Joyce Hardy is the dark and lonely girl whose boldness and cunning prove so seductive; against her vivid, tricky personality, the beautiful and saintly Lucinda can barely hold her own. A Student of Weather traces their rivalry over decades to the century's end. In this gorgeous novel, Elizabeth Hay lays bare the lasting imprint on the human heart of physical landscape, family rivalries, and first love.
"[An] enormously moving first novel.... An unsentimental testament to resilience and mettle.... A triumphant novel." --Newsday
"[A] novel with passionate, urgent grace." --Boston Globe
"Beautiful and excited in every way-in character, and theme, setting Elizabeth Hay firmly in the company of such other writers as Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields." --New Orleans Times-Picayune
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