The Last Crossing - Kindle edition by Vanderhaeghe, Guy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Last Crossing/5(). · The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe. By Zachary Houle / 27 April Since , Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC Radio, has chosen five folks from the Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. · “The best Canadian book I’ve read this year is Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Last Crossing. Vanderhaeghe’s is an epic novel, but without the sometimes baggy sprawl the use of that word can connote; he maintains almost pitch-perfect control over five distinct narrative voices. If ‘excellence’ means anything, this novel is excellent.”Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
"The best Canadian book I've read this year is Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing. Vanderhaeghe's is an epic novel, but without the sometimes baggy sprawl the use of that word can connote; he maintains almost pitch-perfect control over five distinct narrative voices. If 'excellence' means anything, this novel is excellent."—. The Last Crossing by Guy Vanderhaeghe Little, Brown £, pp The last crossing, the second in Guy Vanderhaeghe's nineteenth-century prairie-lands trilogy, comes heralded with praise from. Author Guy Vanderhaeghe. Add to Goodreads Look Inside. Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories. Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West.
The Last Crossing. by Guy Vanderhaeghe. The Last Crossing, Guy Vanderhaeghe’s seventh work of fiction, rewalks the landscape of ’s The Englishman’s Boy. We are back in Fort Benton, snugged up against a tributary of the muddy Missouri, the whiskey posts sirening out to the Assiniboine and Crow, Blackfoot and Cree and to the Metis caught in the deadly tug between native and white, past and future. An ambitious sixth outing from the Saskatchewan author who has twice won Canada’s Governor General’s Award (for Man Descending, , and The Englishman’s Boy, ). The search for a missing brother adds a mythic dimension to Vanderhaeghe’s complex plot, initiated by the mission imposed by wealthy Victorian industrialist Henry Gaunt on his sons Charles, a painter of little accomplishment and no renown, and Addington, a reckless former soldier best remembered for his considerable. 'The Last Crossing' by Guy Vanderhaegue is considered book two, part of a series of three novels about the Canadian North-West, but I think they are all standalone. The Englishman's Boy, book one, is good, but not as good as 'The Last Crossing'. While both novels belong to the class of novels called Westerns, they are different in tone and subject from each other.
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