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Homesick: A Novel
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0899199259
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199252
- Seller
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About This Item
NY: Ticknor and Fields, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Alec Monkman, an old man, awaits the arrival of his headstrong daughter, Vera, who had run away years before, and her son Daniel, whom Alec has never seen. Clean copy. Record # 385234
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's Inventory #
- 385234
- Title
- Homesick: A Novel
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0899199259
- ISBN 13
- 9780899199252
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- Fiction Novels, Novels, , .
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novels;
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