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Read it now." - "Edmonton Journal" " A great accomplishment." - Richard Ford " A stunning performance. "It is a wonder and a glory - written by a man who has plundered the language for all its treasures. The story of the Englishman's boy and his journey into hell and back is absolutely riveting."-Timothy Findley ""The Englishman's Boy" is one of the finest historical novels ever written by a Canadian, an impossible-to-put-down adventure story that also packs some keen insights into the way civilization work

Richly textured and evocative, this is an unforgettable story about power, greed, and the pull of dreams. 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. Originally published in 1996, The Englishman’s Boy is the first in a Guy Vanderhaeghe trilogy that includes the nationally best-selling novel The Last Crossing, with the third book due to be published next year. 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.. So when he discovers that one of the most popular bit players in the Westerns is a real-life tin godthe last buffalo of the old West, Shorty McAdoohe commissions an ambitious young screenwriter named Harry Vincent to hunt Shorty down an

"survival and inevitability" according to noir. For sure unique and also readable. Switching between 2 time periods and 2 somewhat separate story lines is not problem. Having the seemingly sympathetic private rich-guy independant come out as a paranoid idiot was unsettling but believable.. Creating the tribal myth Mr. Joe "It was a force mounted and armed and accoutered without consistency, piebald and paint buffalo runners, blooded bays and chestnuts, Henrys and Sharps and Winchesters and Colts and double-barrelled scatterguns, a Derringer in a coat pocket, skinning knives and Bowie knives, hatchets, a Confederate cavalry sabre hung scabbarded on a saddleho. Ugh Cactus I found this to be an incredibly irritating book. Two separate stories are told in alternating chapters, to be united at the end. Not an original writing ploy, and somewhat annoying to my aging brain.The author does some great descriptive writing, but he does it with completely unrealistic dialogue. An example: "Thunder booming and the sky

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