Snow Road Station : a novel / Elizabeth Hay
In the winter of 2008, as snow falls without interruption, an actor in a Beckett play blanks on her lines. Fleeing the theatre, she beats a retreat into her past and arrives at Snow Road Station, a barely discernible dot on the map of Ontario. The actor is Lulu Blake, in her sixties now, a sexy, seemingly unfooled woman well-versed in taking risks. Out of work, humiliated, she enters the last act of her life wondering what she can make of her diminished self. In Snow Road Station she decides she is through with drama, but drama, it turns out, isn’t through with her. She thinks she wants peace. It turns out she wants more. Looming in the background is that autumn’s global financial meltdown, while in the foreground family and friends animate a round of weddings, sap harvests, love affairs, and personal turmoil. At the centre of it all is the lifelong friendship between Lulu and Nan. As the two women contemplate growing old, they surrender certain hard-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they’ve made and the messy feelings that kept them apart for decades.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781039003323 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 230 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
- Copyright: ©2023
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Gibsons Public Library | FIC HAY (Text) | 30886001117007 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Checked out | 2024-06-03 |