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A Student of Weather
by Hay, Elizabeth
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Pueblo, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Washington, D. C.: Counterpoint Press. Near Fine. 2001. First American Edition; First Printing. Softcover. An Uncorrected Proof in illustrated wrappers. Acclaimed Canadian short story writer Hay's first novel, shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize, tells the story of two sisters and the jealousy that irrevocably changes their lives when a young student comes to stay on their father's Saskatchewan farm in the 1930s.; 368 pages .
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
- Bungalow Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18706
- Title
- A Student of Weather
- Author
- Hay, Elizabeth
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First American Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Counterpoint Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D. C.
- Date Published
- 2001
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sibling rivalry; Fiction.; Rural families; Fiction.; Young women; , Fiction.; Farm life; Fiction.; Sisters; Fiction.; Saskatchewan; Fiction.; , New York (N.Y.); Fiction.; Domestic fiction., ELIZABETH Hay, FIRST Edition
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Lit;
Terms of Sale
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Any item may be returned in original condition for any reason within a reasonable period and payment will be refunded.
About the Seller
Bungalow Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Pueblo, Colorado
About Bungalow Books, ABAA
We are a family owned bookstore, with an emphasis on crime fiction, and signed books. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of American (ABAA), and the Rocky Mountain Antiquarian Booksellers Association (RMABA), and we exhibit regularly at book fairs.
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