Login
Register
Home || Search || About us || Blog || Contact us || Other book sites

Name: Man Descending
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Year: 1982
Rank:

Rating:

Original Rating:

Popularity: 1.1
Genres/categories: Short Stories, Award winners
Culture: Canada

Purchase/research links:
GoodReads
Barns&Noble
Amazon
eBooks.com
LibraryThing


ISBN:
9780370307183
9780771086847
9780773673670
0370307186
0771086849
0773673679
Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1987.

These superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through the eyes of an eleven-year-old boy as convincingly as he reveals it through the eyes of an old man approaching senility. Moving from the hilarious farce of teenage romance all the way to the numbing tragedy of life in a ward for incurables, these twelve stories inspire belief, admiration, and enjoyment, and come together to form a vibrant chronicle of human experience from a gifted observer of life's joys and tribulations. This is Guy Vanderhaeghe's brilliant first book of fiction.
Similar books:

Dance of the Happy Shades
by Alice Munro
The Progress of Love
by Alice Munro
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You
by Alice Munro
The Moons of Jupiter
by Alice Munro
Friend of My Youth
by Alice Munro
Open Secrets
by Alice Munro
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro
Good Bones
by Margaret Atwood
The Beggar Maid
by Alice Munro
We So Seldom Look on Love
by Barbara Gowdy
Dressing Up for the Carnival
by Carol Shields
The Lost Salt Gift of Blood
by Alistair MacLeod
From The Fifteenth District
by Mavis Gallant
Moral Disorder and Other Stories
by Margaret Atwood
Selected Stories
by Alice Munro
Runaway
by Alice Munro
Stone Mattress
by Margaret Atwood
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
Missed Her
by Ivan E. Coyote
As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories
by Alistair MacLeod