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A Student of Weather

Elizabeth Hay

Paperback | Pages: 344 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 2231 Users | 163 Reviews

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Original Title:	A Student of Weather
ISBN:	1841199281 (ISBN13: 9781841199283)
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2000), Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction (2001)

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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.

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Title	:	A Student of Weather
Author	:	Elizabeth Hay
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 344 pages
Published	:	July 1st 2004 by McClelland & Stewart (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Ratings: 3.68 From 2231 Users | 163 Reviews

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I picked this up at a library sale, judging it solely by its cover. Bad me. But, wow, am I ever glad I did. In 1930s dust-bowl Saskatchewan, eight-year-old Norma Joyce Hardy, suffering (invisibly to her family) in the throes of an early puberty, falls hopelessly in love with 23-year-old traveling scholar Maurice Dove, who has come to the prairie to study the weather, and who, frostbitten and in deep distress, knocks on the Hardy familys door one desperately cold winter evening. The young Dove

This book was very poetically written but very anti-climatic. By the time I finished it, I felt like I had wasted a whole bunch of time.

HOLY CRAP. This book was amazing. A little draggy at the end, like it couldn't decide whether to end, but I really didn't want it to end anyway. Just gorgeous.

Elizabeth Hay is both a writer's writer and a consummate reader's writer--a word-siren, language mystic, narrative shaman, and spellbinding painter of prose. In this, her first novel, she creates a ballad-like story of contrasts--truth and deception, love and rejection, light and dark, faith and betrayal.Two sisters, living with their widowed father, are a study of opposites. Seventeen-year-old Lucinda is lovely, tall, titian-haired, pliable, hard-working, dutiful, and light; nine-year-old Norma

Opening in the sultry prairies of 1930s Saskatchewan, this novel evocatively uses meterology, or the study of the weather, as a metaphor for the turbulence in two sisters' love lives as they fight for the same man's affections. I particularly enjoyed how the author avoids the cliches of a typical love story by exploring what happens when love doesn't work out for either woman ... My full review can be read at my blog, www.the-reading-list.com

This book starts slowly. As a child in the first part, Norma Joyce is so annoying, so clingy, sneaky and needy, as to be unsympathetic and I wasn't sure how much time I would invest in the book. However, as the pages rolled by, and her life took such sad turns, I began to be more invested in her. Maurice was a truly horrible person, the kind of shallow, selfish individual who seems so attractive and charismatic on the surface but has no depth, no empathy for others. His abuse of Norma Joyce's

Set in the Saskatchewan dustbowl in the 1930s, this tale of two very different sisters and the diverging paths their lives take is masterful, engrossing, full of twists and turns about the choices we make and how our lives are so easily altered. Beautifully written.