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The Englishman's Boy
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0385409494
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409490
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Doubleday. 1997. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Review Copy - stamp/label to prelim pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 316 pages. The first in the Western novel trilogy. Winner of the Canadian Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1996. . 1st UK Edition. Hardback.
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
- Adelaide Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BIB294494
- Title
- The Englishman's Boy
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used -
- Edition
- 1st UK Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385409494
- ISBN 13
- 9780385409490
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1997
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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