New York: Picador USA. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1997. First American Edition. Hardcover. 0312168233 . About new book in crisp dj with short edgecrease to rear panel. .

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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: B-Line Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 19791
Title: The Englishman's Boy
Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First American Edition
ISBN 10: 0312168233
ISBN 13: 9780312168230
Publisher: Picador USA
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1997
Keywords: 0312168233, CALIFORNIA, FICTION, CANADA, HOLLYWOOD, Governor, General's, Award

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