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Guy Vanderhaeghe


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...

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The Englishman's Boy
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Westerns; Fiction
978-0-7710-8793-6 (0-7710-8793-4)

May 29, 2012 | $22.00

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The Englishman's Boy
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771087936
Our Price: $22.00
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This brilliant and compelling novel, set in the early days of the Canadian West, is the first of three linked historical novels by Guy Vanderhaeghe, one of Canada's preeminent storytellers.
 
The Englishman's Boy brilliantly connects Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West...



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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8608-3 (0-7710-8608-3)

May 29, 2012 | $22.00

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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771086083
Our Price: $22.00
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Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe's eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!).

A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, and it...

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The Last Crossing
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Westerns; Fiction
978-0-7710-8784-4 (0-7710-8784-5)

May 29, 2012 | $22.00

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The Last Crossing
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771087844
Our Price: $22.00
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Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories

Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West...

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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Hardcover | 480 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8740-0 (0-7710-8740-3)

September 13, 2011 | $32.99

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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780771087400
Our Price: $32.99
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Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe's eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!).

A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, and it...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-8612-0 (0-7710-8612-1)

September 13, 2011 | $14.99

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A Good Man
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780771086120
Our Price: $14.99


Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe's eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!).

A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, and it...

Also available as a hardcover and a trade paperback.

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Homesick
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-567-0 (1-55199-567-0)

December 31, 2010 | $11.99

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Homesick
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995670
Our Price: $11.99


It is the summer of 1959, and in a prairie town in Saskatchewan, Alec Monkman waits for his estranged daughter to come home, with the grandson he has never seen. But this is an uneasy reunion. Fiercely independent, Vera has been on her own since running away at nineteen – first...

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The Englishman's Boy
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-1-55199-570-0 (1-55199-570-0)

December 17, 2010 | $9.99

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The Englishman's Boy
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995700
Our Price: $9.99


The Englishman’s Boy brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West – the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe’s rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era – with its visionaries...

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The Last Crossing
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-571-7 (1-55199-571-9)

December 17, 2010 | $9.99

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The Last Crossing
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995717
Our Price: $9.99


Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories

Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West...

Also available as a trade paperback and a trade paperback.

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Man Descending
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-55199-568-7 (1-55199-568-9)

December 17, 2010 | $9.99

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Man Descending
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995687
Our Price: $9.99


These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he...

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My Present Age
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-569-4 (1-55199-569-7)

December 17, 2010 | $12.99

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My Present Age
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995694
Our Price: $12.99


Ed is punchy, unemployed, and on the wrong side of thirty. After his exasperated wife, Victoria, leaves him, Ed finds consolation where he has always found it, in his own rich and eccentric imagination. Pursued by the demons of his own obsession, Ed embarks on a quixotic quest to find Victoria...

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Things As They Are
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-1-55199-572-4 (1-55199-572-7)

December 17, 2010 | $13.99

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Things As They Are
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781551995724
Our Price: $13.99


By the award-winning author of The Last Crossing and The Englishman's Boy

Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death of his domineering father, a middle-aged man tries to uncover a truth about their sometimes difficult relationship. When a grade-six teacher tyrannizes...

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The Tomorrow-Tamer
Written by Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Trade Paperback | 276 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-4631-5 (0-7710-4631-6)

January 29, 2008 | $19.95

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The Tomorrow-Tamer
Written by Margaret Laurence, Afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771046315
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying...

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The Tomorrow-Tamer
Written by Margaret Laurence
Afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe

eBook | 280 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Classics
978-0-7710-4630-8 (0-7710-4630-8)

January 1, 2008 | $13.99

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The Tomorrow-Tamer
Written by Margaret Laurence, Afterword by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780771046308
Our Price: $13.99


The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurence’s first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Man Descending
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Paperback | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-8690-8 (0-7710-8690-3)

January 11, 2005 | $11.95

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Man Descending
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780771086908
Our Price: $11.95
   Quantity: 1 


These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he...

Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Things As They Are
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Trade Paperback | 264 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-8739-4 (0-7710-8739-X)

February 17, 2004 | $19.99

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Things As They Are
Written by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780771087394
Our Price: $19.99
   Quantity: 1 


By The Award-Winning Author Of The Last Crossing And The Englishman’s Boy

Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death of his domineering father, a middle-aged man tries to uncover a truth about their sometimes difficult relationship. When a grade-six teacher tyrannizes...

Also available as an eBook.

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