Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 2002. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Printing of the First Edition. Fine copy in a fine jacket..

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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: Renaissance Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 10605
Title: The Last Crossing
Author: Vanderhaeghe, Guy ( SIGNED )
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Printing of the First Edition
ISBN 10: 0771087373
ISBN 13: 9780771087370
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
Place of Publication: Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
Keywords: Canadian Literature
Bookseller catalogs: First Edition Canadian Literature;

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