Man Descending
by Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0899193854
- ISBN 13
- 9780899193854
- Seller
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La Porte, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
Man Descending is a collection of short stories written by Saskatchewan-born writer Guy Vanderhaeghe. The book was first published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982 and Vanderhaeghe went on to become one of the few first-time authors to win the coveted Governor General's Award for Fiction for this work. It also won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. The book consists of 12 stories covering different ages in people's lives, ranging from teenage romance to the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Bookseller
- Bookmarc's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SCW00826
- Title
- Man Descending
- Author
- Vanderhaeghe, Guy
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0899193854
- ISBN 13
- 9780899193854
- Publisher
- Ticknor & Fields/Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- Literature Literary Fiction Short Story Short Stories Canadian Author
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature / Other Literary Awards; Literature / Canadian Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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