Late Nights on Air

Elizabeth Hay · 2007 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

In 1975 the staff of a small radio station in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, fall in and out of love as a plan to run a pipeline through the Mackenzie Valley divides the town. An expedition by canoe to the barren lands, drawn from the earlier journey of the explorer John Hornby, becomes a reckoning for several of them. It won the Giller Prize.

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