{"product_id":"snow-road-station-paperback","title":"Snow Road Station - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Hay\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unrealized dreams, the enduring bonds of female friendship, and love's capacity to surprise us at any age.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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 friendship between Lulu and Nan. As the two women contemplate growing old, they surrender certain long-held dreams and confront the limits of the choices they've made and the messy feelings that kept them apart for decades.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eELIZABETH HAY is the Giller Prize-winning author of six novels, including \u003ci\u003eLate Nights on Air\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHis Whole Life\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Student of Weather\u003c\/i\u003e. Her memoir \u003ci\u003eAll Things Consoled\u003c\/i\u003e won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction; her story collection \u003ci\u003eSmall Change\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. A former radio broadcaster, she spent a number of years in Mexico and New York City, and makes her home in Ottawa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51763899760928,"sku":"9781039003347","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b9cb91840eeb3273cfdbea0f847dc954.webp?v=1780241774","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/snow-road-station-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}