Homesick
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good Minus
- ISBN 10
- 0771086954
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086953
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto ON: McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Canadian Publishers., 1989. Unstated. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good Minus. 292p. Personal note on FFEP (previous owner's name/date). A Canadian novel about family bonds, set in Toronto and Connaught, Sask. Vanderhaeghe is a powerful writer on the human condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Reading Rat
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RRAB591
- Title
- Homesick
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good Minus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Unstated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0771086954
- ISBN 13
- 9780771086953
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart Inc. The Canadian Publishers.
- Place of Publication
- Toronto ON
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Novel Canadian Poetic
- Bookseller catalogs
- History Politics; Canadiana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Reading Rat
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Winnipeg, Manitoba
About Reading Rat
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- FFEP
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