Englishman’s Boy
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Vanderhaeghe deftly weaves two parallel narratives – one about the old Canadian West and the other about Tinseltown in its most extravagant era – in this novel about power, greed, betrayal, and the pull of dreams…..Read More
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