The Last Cowboy
by Gowan, Lee
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0676975828
- ISBN 13
- 9780676975826
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 304 p Audience: General/trade Book Description In this romantic, humorous and harrowing novel, the acclaimed author of Make Believe Love returns to the epic skies and straight roads of Broken Head, Saskatchewan, and takes us into a very modern Western Sam McMahon can t understand why his banker colleagues in Toronto keep calling him cowboy, when he prefers opera to C&W and fine wine to beer Sam s wife is in love with his brother Vern, who has followed the family tradition and works their parents farm, a mixed cattle and crop operation inherited from his grandfather, Old Sam When his wife leaves him stranded by the side of a Saskatchewan highway, Sam is rescued by a woman, Ai Lee, in a rented Toyota Ai is a film location scout who s searching for the perfect cliff for legendary director James Aspen s new film, The Last Cowboy Thirty years previously, Old Sam dreams of better days in an older West, mending
Synopsis
Lee Gowan grew up on a farm near Swift Current, Saskatchewan. He is the author of Going to Cuba , a collection of short stories, and of Make Believe Love , a New Face of Fiction novel that was nominated for the Trillium Award. His first screenplay, Paris or Somewhere , won three screenwriting awards and was nominated for a Gemini. He currently directs the creative writing program at the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9151485502
- Title
- The Last Cowboy
- Author
- Gowan, Lee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0676975828
- ISBN 13
- 9780676975826
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, On, Canada
- This edition first published
- 2004
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