num_pages: 352
description: Winner of the Governor General's AwardCounterpointing the stories of the legendary Western cowboy Shorty McAdoo and Harry Vincent, the ambitious young screenwriter commissioned to retell his story in 1920s Hollywood, this novel reconstructs an epic journey through Montana into the Canadian plains, by a group of men pursuing their stolen horses.The Englishman's Boy intelligently and creatively depicts an American West where greed and deception are tempered by honor and strength. As Richard Ford has noted, "Vanderhaeghe is simply a wonderful writer. The Englishman's Boy, spanning as it does two countries, two centuries, two views of history—the Canadian Wild West as 'imagined' by Hollywood—is a great accomplishment. Readers, I think, will find this book irresistible."
language: English
title: The Englishman's Boy
titlecomplete: The Englishman's Boy
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, 19th Century, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 4742
places: Montana, Saskatchewan
series: Frontier trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Picador