These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life’s joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe’s brilliant first book of fiction.
- ISBN10 0771086849
- ISBN13 9780771086847
- Publish Date 15 April 2000 (first published 1 January 1900)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 272
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780771086847