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The Englishman's Boy
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy (SIGNED)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine +
- ISBN 10
- 0771086938
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086939
- Seller
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Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine +. Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Award for fiction which weaves the old Canadian West with an emerging Hollywood. The Booker-nominated Saskatchewan author & playwright also won the 1982 GG award for his first book, Man Descending, a collection of short stories that also won Britain's Faber Prize. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 333pp. Very slight edge wear to DJ
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
- High Park Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003102
- Title
- The Englishman's Boy
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy (SIGNED)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771086938
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086939
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian Fiction;
- X weight
- 0 kg
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