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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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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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 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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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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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...
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 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...
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 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...
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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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...
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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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...















