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The Englishman's Boy
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 077108692X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086922
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1997. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 333 p.; VG; slight reading wear, very nice unmarked copy. Guy Vanderhaeghe's prizewinning novel of the Canadian west, linking Hollywood in the 1920s with the Cypress Hills massacre. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Synopsis
Guy Vanderhaeghe was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, in 1951. He is the author of four novels, My Present Age (1984), Homesick (1989), co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Award, The Englishman’s Boy (1996), winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction and for Best Book of the Year, and a finalist for The Giller Prize and the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and, most recently, The Last Crossing (2002), a long-time national bestseller and winner of the Saskatoon Book Award, the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Fiction and for Book of the Year, and the Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award for Fiction Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. He is also the author of three collections of short stories, Man Descending (1982), winner of the Governor’s General’s Award and the Faber Prize in the U.K., and The Trouble With Heroes (1983), and Things As They Are (1992). Acclaimed for his fiction, Vanderhaeghe has also written plays. I Had a Job I Liked. Once. was first produced in 1991, and won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama. His second play, Dancock’s Dance , was produced in 1995. Guy Vanderhaeghe lives in Saskatoon, where he is a Visiting Professor of English at S.T.M. College. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Reading Rat
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB1455
- Title
- The Englishman's Boy
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 077108692X
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086922
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- FICTION Canada CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES CALIF
- Bookseller catalogs
- Aboriginal Native Peoples Indian Inuit; Canadiana; Historical Fiction;
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- Jacket
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