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The Englishman's Boy
by Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385409494
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409490
- Seller
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Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Doubleday, 1997. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 316 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without tears or chips or other damage. Edges foxed and browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; Drifters Canada Fiction.; ISBN: 0385409494. ISBN/EAN: 9780385409490. Dewey Code: 813.54 21. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB15522. . 9780385409490
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Mr Pickwick's Fine Old Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RB15522
- Title
- The Englishman's Boy
- Author
- Guy Vanderhaeghe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Early Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385409494
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409490
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- BZDB1 Fiction; Drifters Canada Fiction.; ISBN: 0385409494 EAN: 9780385409490 Guy Vanderhaeghe The Englishman's Boy
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- Octavo
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Edges
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- Foxed
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