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|title= Late Nights on Air

|author= Elizabeth Hay

|buy= Yes

|borrow= Yes

|pages=276

|publisher= Quercus

|date= August 2008

|isbn=978-1847245496

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''It was the beginning of June, the start of the long, golden summer of 1975 when northern light held that little radio station in the large palm of its hand.''

As the fictional lives unfold with growing natural menace, Hornby's story and others from hard times past are spun amongst them as both echo and counterpoint. The mixture is completed with the myths and legends of the Native peoples.

Hay's characters are sharp and real, but it is her capturing of landscape that truly sets her apart. Hers is a landscape made up not just of visual images but intensely also of sound…whilst one of the party is a photographer, another carries a microphone and tape recorder to capture equally transient moments in the formation and passage of the world.

''Late Nights on Air'' is the 2007 winner of the Giller Prize, established 15 years ago in honour of literary journalist Doris Giller and awarded annually for the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.

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