Guy Vanderhaeghe

Because Somebody Asked Me to

Observations on History, Literature, and the Passing Scene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Canadian literary great Guy Vanderhaeghe's eclectic and wryly insightful collection of nonfiction pieces spans his forty-year writing career.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thistledown Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781771872584
• ISBN-10: 1771872586
• Artikelnr.: 70080406

Autorenporträt

Guy Vanderhaeghe is a three-time winner of the Governor's-General Award for English language fiction for his collections of short stories, Man Descending and Daddy Lenin, and for his novel, The Englishman's Boy, which was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize and The International Dublin Literary Award. His novel, The Last Crossing, was a winner of the CBC's Canada Reads Competition. August into Winter, his most recent novel, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and the Glengarry Book Award and was shortlisted for the Writers' Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize. He has also received the Timothy Findley Prize, the Harbourfront Literary Prize, and the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Prize, all given for a body of work.