TAY JOHN
by O'Hagan, Howard
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771098502
- ISBN 13
- 9780771098505
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
McClelland & Stewart. Very Good. 1987. Softcover. 0771098502 . McClelland & Stewart edition 1987, ISBN: 0771092059. Cover has light edge and corner wear, light creasing, age tanning to rear and spine and a light stain on front and inside front cover. A few pages within book have highlighting and/or pencil underling. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; (*lower shipping avail to most locations) [160-osl? ] .
Synopsis
Howard O’Hagan was born in Lethbridge, Alberta, in 1902. As a young man, he worked on survey parties in the Rockies before moving to Montreal to study law at McGill University. After practising law for a brief time, he returned to western Canada to work as a tour guide in Banff National Park. Stephen Leacock helped O’Hagan obtain employment with the Canadian Pacific Railroad recruiting farm labourers from England. He also worked for the Canadian National Railroad in Jasper and in New York and for the Argentine National Railroad in Buenos Aires. While living in San Francisco in the thirties, O’Hagan began a series of sketches of guides, mountain men, and trappers that formed the background for his novel Tay John (1939), which he completed on an island in Howe Sound on the British Columbia coast. One of the first western Canadians to make a major contribution to Canadian literature, O’Hagan found occasional work in the fifties as a journalist in Victoria, British Columbia, and as a labourer on the waterfront and on survey crews. In 1963 O’Hagan moved to Sicily, where he lived for more than a decade. He returned to Victoria in 1974. Howard O’Hagan died in Victoria in 1982. From the Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Riverwood's Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2834
- Title
- TAY JOHN
- Author
- O'Hagan, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0771098502
- ISBN 13
- 9780771098505
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- 0771098502, Historical Fiction, Canadian Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Historical; Fiction - Canadian;
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