num_pages: 333
description: "The Englishman's Boy" brilliantly links together Hollywood in the 1920s with one of the bloodiest, most brutal events of the nineteenth-century Canadian West - the Cypress Hills Massacre. Vanderhaeghe's rendering of the stark, dramatic beauty of the western landscape and of Hollywood in its most extravagant era - with its visionaries, celebrities, and dreamers - provides vivid background for scenes of action, adventure, and intrigue. Richly textured, evocative of time and place, this is an unforgettable novel about power, greed, and the pull of dreams that has at its centre the haunting story of a young drifter - " the Englishman's boy" - whose fate, ultimately, is a tragic one.
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: McClelland & Stewart