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Guy Vanderhaeghe

    Guy Vanderhaeghe crafts fiction that often features a keen insight into human nature and societal nuances. His writing, typically set within Canadian landscapes, explores the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the moral quandaries his characters confront. Vanderhaeghe selects his themes with a sensitivity to detail and psychological depth, rendering his characters relatable and their stories resonant. His stylistic prowess lies in his ability to evoke rich and immersive worlds.

    The Englishman's Boy
    The Last Crossing
    • The Last Crossing

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their free- spirited brother, Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. They enlist the services of a guide to lead them on their journey across a harsh and unknown landscape. This is the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scottish, who suffers his own painful past. They are joined by Lucy Stoveall, a woman filled with rage and sorrow over the loss of her young sister Madge who was brutally murdered. She is on a vengeful mission to track down and kill the murderous Kelso brothers. The group is joined by a jumble of other characters en route, each of whom are forced to confront their own demons. But at the novel's centre is a love story. Vanderhaeghe glides effortlessly through the patois and frontier talk, faultlessly switching from cultured English characters to American roughnecks to Scots-Canadians, and the natural prairie landscape is evoked brilliantly. Vanderhaeghe's new novel is an epic masterpiece that solidifies his place as one of Canada's best storytellers.

      The Last Crossing2003
      3.9
    • The Englishman's Boy

      • 333 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      The life of Harry Vincent, a young title-writer in 1920s Hollywood, collides with the story of a young drifter known as the Englishman's boy, who in 1873 joins a group of wolf hunters in the search for a ring of horse thieves, as Harry prepares to work on a movie being made about him some fifty yea

      The Englishman's Boy1997