Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Year: 1996
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Fiction, Western, Fiction
Culture: Canada
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9780312195441
9780802144102
0312195443
0802144101 |
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Counterpointing the stories of the legendary Western cowboy Shorty McAdoo and Harry Vincent, the ambitious young screenwriter commissioned to retell his story in 1920s Hollywood, this novel reconstructs an epic journey through Montana into the Canadian plains, by a group of men pursuing their stolen horses.
The Englishman's Boy intelligently and creatively depicts an American West where greed and deception are tempered by honor and strength. As Richard Ford has noted, "Vanderhaeghe is simply a wonderful writer. The Englishman's Boy, spanning as it does two countries, two centuries, two views of history—the Canadian Wild West as 'imagined' by Hollywood—is a great accomplishment. Readers, I think, will find this book irresistible."
This book is part of the "Frontier trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Last Crossing"
First published in 2002
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 | "A Good Man"
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