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The Englishman's Boy

When struggling screenwriter Harry Vincent is asked to write a script for a grandiose 1920s film about the West, he is drawn into the story of a young drifter in 1873 who joins a group of hunters in the stark no-man's land between the American and the Canadian West. "A viscerally exciting book about history and our telling of it."--Jacket.

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  • "Englishman's boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe"
  • "Englishman's boy"@it
  • "Da inglishman's boya"

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  • "When struggling screenwriter Harry Vincent is asked to write a script for a grandiose 1920s film about the West, he is drawn into the story of a young drifter in 1873 who joins a group of hunters in the stark no-man's land between the American and the Canadian West. "A viscerally exciting book about history and our telling of it."--Jacket."@en
  • "As a youth, Shorty McAdoo participated in a massacre of Indians. Fifty years later, still suffering from guilt, he is approached by a filmmaker to tell his story. A chance to make amends--or get exploited."@en
  • "As a youth, Shorty McAdoo participated in a massacre of Indians. Fifty years later, still suffering from guilt, he is approached by a filmmaker to tell his story. A chance to make amends--or get exploited."
  • "The life of Harry Vincent, a young title-writer in 1920s Hollywood, collides with the story of a young drifter known as the Englishman's boy, who in 1873 joins a group of wolf hunters in the search for a ring of horse thieves, as Harry prepares to work on a movie being made about him some fifty years later."
  • "Winner of the 1996 Governor-General's Literary Award."@en
  • "Harry Vincent, jeune scénariste américain des années 1920, est chargé de travailler sur un film relatant un épisode particulièrement odieux de la conquête de l'Ouest : un massacre d'Indiens commis par des chasseurs de loups à la poursuite de leurs chevaux volés. Harry va dénicher un vieux cow-boy témoin des faits, mais son producteur ne semble pas accorder beaucoup de prix à la vérité..."
  • "Dans les années 20, le jeune scénariste Harry Vincent est embauché par un grand producteur d'Hollywood pour retrouver l'un des derniers héros de la conquête de l'Ouest. Séduit par ce cow-boy taciturne et hanté par son passé, Harry écrit un scénario qui retrace fidèlement son histoire. Mais il va découvrir qu'Hollywood est un monde d'illusions qui n'attache que peu de prix à la vérité historique."
  • "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."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Western stories"@en
  • "Western stories"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "The Englishman's boy : [a novel]"
  • "The Englishman's Boy"
  • "The Englishman's Boy"@en
  • "The englishman's boy"
  • "The englishman's boy"@en
  • "Daya iṃliśamayāna'sa baẏa"
  • "Le dernier cow-boy : roman"
  • "La storia di Shorty : romanzo"
  • "La storia di Shorty : romanzo"@it
  • "Comme des loups : roman"
  • "The Englishman's boy"
  • "The Englishman's boy"@en
  • "The Englishman's boy : a novel"

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