{"product_id":"hummingbird-9780995994607","title":"Hummingbird","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"What you could change and alter could never be finished or complete or dead. This is what I had been told back then, and what I had tried very hard to believe in since.\"\u003c\/i\u003e Beside a lake in the northern Ontario wilderness, fifteen-year-old Zachary Tayler lives a lonely life with his father, his only neighbours a leech trapper, an eccentric millionaire and an expert in snow. All Zack has for company is the harsh and moody landscape, which holds both beauty and terror in its depths and whispers with the promise of dark, secret spaces and undiscovered worlds. Summer and life change with the arrival of the mysterious Eva Spiller, who is determined to find the spot where her parents disappeared in a floatplane after flying off from the lake. While trying to navigate between summer and winter, the living and the dead, the past and the present, Zack and Eva grow closer. The people of Sitting Down Lake will have to rely on each other to come to terms with the past and realize that death is never final: something always remains. In his fifth novel, award-winning author Tristan Hughes has created a vivid and poetic coming-of-age story about loss, absence and redemption. \u003cb\u003eReview Quotes and Endorsements\u003c\/b\u003e \"Superbly accomplished ... Hughes' prose is startling and luminous.\" --\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eEye Lake\u003c\/i\u003e is a sturdy and ... compelling novel, ripe with luminous prose and well-sustained metaphor, a fine investigation of isolation, work, family, the Canadian pioneer spirit and the doomed communities that linger in opportunity's wake.\" --\u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e \"Hughes has done an exquisite job plotting \u003ci\u003eEye Lake\u003c\/i\u003e, but this is only a small part of the novel's pleasures ...  A] deeply satisfying read.\" -- \u003ci\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/i\u003e \"Rarely has there been a more endearing storyteller ...  Hughes's] story of a small town growing and declining on the whims of a few outsize personalities also is the story of families, boom to bust.\" --\u003ci\u003e Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \"Folded within the seemingly simple narratives of Hughes' novel, is a lovely rumination on what it means for the world to end, however small that world may be.\" --\u003ci\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tristan Hughes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Locarno Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780995994607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHughes, Tristan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTristan Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Atikokan, Ontario, and brought up on the Welsh island of Ynys Mon. He has a PhD in literature from King's College, Cambridge and has taught courses on American literature and creative writing at Cambridge, Leipzig, Bangor and Cardiff. He won the Rhys Davies Short Story Award in 2002 and wrote his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), while spending seven months in a body cast after breaking his back falling off the walls of a castle. Soon after he published \u003ci\u003eSend My Cold Bones Home\u003c\/i\u003e (2006) and \u003ci\u003eRevenant\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), all set on Ynys Mon and highly praised in the UK. His most recent novels \u003ci\u003eEye Lake\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and its follow-up, \u003ci\u003eHummingbird\u003c\/i\u003e, are set in the northern Ontario town of Crooked River, based on Atikokan, where Hughes spent his childhood summers. Tristan Hughes is a senior lecturer and an AHRC Fellow in Creative Writing at Cardiff University who splits his time between Cardiff and Atikokan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Locarno Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40544705970291,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_765c8008-6104-4f0b-9e38-9f22cc8e5738.jpg?v=1666965831","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/hummingbird-9780995994607","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}