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The Last Crossing
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Fine Condition
- ISBN 10
- 087113912X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139122
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004. First American Edition . Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine Condition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bound in the publisher's original boards.
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
- Walther's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001047
- Title
- The Last Crossing
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Fine Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 087113912X
- ISBN 13
- 9780871139122
- Publisher
- Atlantic Monthly Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- FICTION FATHERS SONS MISSING PERSONS
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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