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, celebrities, and dreamers – provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter – “the Englishman’s boy” – whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.
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Review:
'Guy 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' Richard Ford 'Bristles with rare vitality... it had not admire the skill with which Vanderhaeghe dramatises two quite different worlds' Julia Flynn, Sunday Telegraph 'A strong, hard novel... Vanderhaeghe is a fine writer' Phil Baker, Sunday Times
Book Description:
* Vanderhaeghe deftly weaves two parallel narratives - one about the old Canadian West and the other about Tinseltown in its most extravagent era - in this irresistible novel about power, greed, betrayal, and the pull of dreams.
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- PublisherMcclelland & Stewart Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 077108692X
- ISBN 13 9780771086922
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages344
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