N. Y.: Picador, 1997, 1997. HC and DJ. First Picador USA edition, Sept, 1997. 9 1/2 x 6 2/5. ISBN:0-312-16823-3. 333 pp. Guy Vandehaeghe's stunning novel, winner of the Canadian Governor General's Award for 1996. The story spans two countries, two centuries, two views of history - the Canadian Wild West as " imagined" by Hollywood - the Englishman's boy and his journey into hell and back. DJ has great b/w photo of a cowboy o n horseback. DJ is in mint condition. Publishing flaw of 3 thread-like, vertical lines on front and rear. Bright and immaculately clean. Binding is purple and black paper on boards - one discolourati o n spot 1/4", on front. Endpapers white and pristine. Text tight, mint cond. A lovely and interesting copy of Vanderhaeghe's fine work. DJ: fine, Binding: v. good, Text: fine..

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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: Ghost River Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001260
Title: The Englishman's Boy
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0312168233
ISBN 13: 9780312168230
Publisher: N. Y.: Picador, 1997
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: 0-312-16823-3 WESTERN CANADIAN LITERATURE
Bookseller catalogs: Western;

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