Late Nights on Air

作者:Hay, Elizabeth

页数:363

价格:$ 27.12

isbn号码:9781582434087

具体描述

The eagerly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of A Student of Weather and Garbo Laughs. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land. Elizabeth Hay has been compared to Annie Proulx, Alice Hoffman, and Isabel Allende, yet she is uniquely herself. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this new novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story. Written in gorgeous prose, laced with dark humour, Late Nights on Air is Hay's most seductive and accomplished novel yet, and is already garnering interest abroad. "On the shortest night of the year, a golden evening without end, Dido climbed the wooden stepsto Pilot's Monument on top of the great Rock that formed the heart of old Yellowknife. In the Netherlands the light was long and gradual too, but more meadowy, more watery, or else hazier, depending on where you were. . . . Here, it was subarctic desert, virtually unpopulated, and the light was uniformly clear. On the road below, a small man in a black beret was bending over his tripod just as her father used to bend over his tape recorder. Her father's voice had become the wallpaper inside her skull, he'd made a home for himself there as improvised and unexpected as these little houses on the side of the Rock -- houses with histories of instability, of changing from gambling den to barber shop to sheet metal shop to private home, and of being moved from one part of town to another since they had no foundations."--"From Late Nights On Air"

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当我第一次看到这本书的名字时，就有一种莫名的熟悉感，仿佛在某个遥远的频率里，听过无数次，又抓不住具体的声音。它唤起我许多关于深夜的记忆，那些城市在灯光下闪烁的繁华，那些独自一人在房间里，与思绪共舞的时光。这本书的封面设计，更是将这种感觉放大到了极致，深沉的夜色，却又透着一丝不易察觉的温暖，就像黎明前最黑暗，也最充满希望的那一刻。我猜想，这本书的内容，定然是充满了情感的起伏，也充满了对人生某些片段的深刻洞察。我期待着，它能像一场深夜的广播，将那些被遗忘的、被忽略的故事，重新带到我的耳边，用文字触动我内心最柔软的部分。这本书的重量，拿在手里刚刚好，不会太沉重，也不会轻飘飘。封面的触感，也有一种磨砂质感，摸起来很舒服。我喜欢这种不张扬，却能引起人内心深处共鸣的设计。它没有用过于华丽的辞藻来吸引我的注意，而是用一种内敛而又深邃的方式，邀请我去探索。

初见这本书的名字，Late Nights on Air，便勾起了我心中对于深夜的无限遐想。那是一种褪去了白日伪装的真实，是一种在寂静中涌动的思绪，是一种在空气中悄然弥漫的情感。我喜欢在夜晚，独自一人，与文字为伴，仿佛整个世界都只属于自己。这本书的封面，用一种沉静而又略带神秘的色彩，准确地捕捉到了这种氛围，它不像那些张扬的封面，却有着一种能直抵人心的力量。我期待着，这本书能够像一场深夜的对话，让我听到那些不曾对人言说的故事，感受到那些深埋在心底的情感。它或许能成为我在漫漫长夜里，最温柔的陪伴，最真挚的回响。这本书的版式设计，也极具匠心，字体的选择，行距的疏密，都恰到好处地烘托了内容的意境，读起来流畅而又舒适，让人完全沉浸其中，忘记了时间的流逝。