Bibliograph

The Englishman's boy, Guy Vanderhaeghe

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The Englishman's boy, Guy Vanderhaeghe

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The Englishman's boy

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Summary

Originally published in 1996, The Englishman's Boy is the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally bestselling novel The Last Crossing, with the third book due to be published next year. By far his most successful book in his native Canada, The Englishman's Boy expertly depicts an American West where greed and deception act side by side with honor and strength. In 1920s Hollywood, elusive movie studio owner Damon Ira Chance is obsessed with making pictures rooted in American history and experience, with the poetry of fact. So when he discovers that one of the most popular bit players in the Westerns is a real-life tin god-the last buffalo of the old West, Shorty McAdoo-he commissions an ambitious young screenwriter named Harry Vincent to hunt Shorty down and retell his story. Richly textured and evocative, this is an unforgettable story about power, greed, and the pull of dreams. At once an intensely original character study and a hugely entertaining page-turner, The Englishman's Boy is a gritty, resonant novel of timeless beauty and insight

Target audience

adult

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