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A Student of Weather
by Hay, Elizabeth
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0771037899
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037894
- Seller
-
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
M & S, 2000 Second printing of first edition, has correct ISBN on rear panel of dust jacket. Signed by author on title page, her first book.
Synopsis
Elizabeth Hay is the author of two highly acclaimed, bestselling novels. Her first novel, A Student of Weather (2000), won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Her most recent novel, Garbo Laughs (2003), won the Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is also the author of Crossing the Snow Line (stories, 1989); The Only Snow in Havana (non-fiction, 1992); Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (non-fiction, 1993), and Small Change (stories, 1997), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her stories have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories , The Journey Prize Anthology , and The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women , edited by Rosemary Sullivan. She has won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Western Magazine Award for Fiction. In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives in Ottawa.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Laurel Reed Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006960
- Title
- A Student of Weather
- Author
- Hay, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0771037899
- ISBN 13
- 9780771037894
- Publisher
- M & S
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Laurel Reed Books
Biblio member since 2013
Stratford, Ontario
About Laurel Reed Books
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