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All Things Consoled - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

All Things Consoled - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers'' Trust Award for Non-fiction A poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author. From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada''s most celebrated novelists, comes a startling and beautiful memoir about the drama of her parents'' end, and the longer drama of being their daughter.Jean and Gordon Hay were a formidable pair. She was an artist and superlatively frugal; he was a proud and principled schoolteacher with an explosive temper. Elizabeth, the so-called difficult child, always suspected she would end up caring for them in their final years, in part to atone for her childhood sins.Philip Roth once said, "Old age is a massacre". All Things Consoled takes you inside the massacre as Hay''s ferociously independent parents become increasingly dependent on her.With remarkable wit and honesty, Hay lays bare the agony of a family coping as old age turns into the tragedy of living too long. In the end she arrives at a more nuanced understanding of her mother and father, and of herself as their daughter. They were and remain the two vivid giants in her life.

DKK 155.00
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His Whole Life - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

His Whole Life - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home.At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of his youth. Moving from city to country, summer to winter, wellbeing to illness, the novel charts the deepening bond between mother and son even as the family comes apart.Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story as only Elizabeth Hay could tell it. It draws readers in with its warmth, wisdom, its vivid sense of place, its searching honesty, and nuanced portrait of the lives of one family and those closest to it. Hay explores the mystery of how members of a family can hurt each other so deeply, and remember those hurts in such detail, yet find openings that shock them with love and forgiveness. This is vintage Elizabeth Hay at the height of her powers.

DKK 110.00
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Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in Yellowknife, Northern Canada. There, 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 characters 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, 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, threatening to displace Native people from their land.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 and laced with dark humour.

DKK 120.00
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The World According to Kaleb - Kaleb Cooper - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The World According to Kaleb - Kaleb Cooper - Bog - Quercus Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Get ready for season two of Clarkson''s Farm with Kaleb Cooper''s worldly wisdom on life''s big issues, from the difference between straw and hay to the importance of having a hair perm. Chipping Norton''s celebrity farmer Kaleb Cooper has strong views on lots of things: sheep (''suicidal morons''), Jeremy Clarkson (''there are two types of farming, unless you count whatever it is Jeremy thinks he''s doing''), goats (''they''re a proper good clear-up animal, they eat everything - no wonder they taste horrible''), New York (''if it''s like London, where there are no tractors, that''s no good'') and more. In The World According to Kaleb , he shares his thoughts on topics such as philosophy, celebrities and why farming is the best job in the world. He even tells us why the chicken crossed the road. Dubbed ''the real star of Clarkson''s Farm '', Kaleb reveals his true, loveable, funny and down-to-earth self, with deadpan gags and unique observations that will have you crying with laughter. Utterly hilarious, this is Kaleb as you''ve got to know him and love him on the hugely successful television series.

DKK 190.00
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