Dabs The Last Crossing Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe Hardcover Usually ships in 24 hours Delivery is subject to warehouse availability. Shipping delays may occur if we receive more orders than stock. Our Price: $37.99 Our Sale Price: $22.79 Savings: $15.20 (40%) Ordering is 100% secure . Spend $39 or more at chapters.indigo.ca and your order ships free!. ( Details ) Dimensions: 400 Pages | ISBN: 0771087373 Published: October 2002 | Published by McClelland & Stewart From the Publisher 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. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to lead them on their journey across a harsh and unknown landscape. This is the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scottish, who suffers his own painful past. The group that sets north and west into British Canada grows to include Caleb Ayto, a sycophantic American journalist, and Lucy Stoveall, wise and beautiful, who travels in the hope of avenging her sister’s vicious murder. Later, the party is joined by Custis Straw, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and Custis’s friend and protector Aloysius Dooley, a saloon keeper. This unlikely posse becomes entangled in an unfolding drama that forces each of them to come to terms with their own demons. Told from alternating points of view and in vivid flashbacks, The Last Crossing contains a large cast of unforgettable characters and haunting scenes — among them, a bear hunt at dawn, the arrival of a Métis caravan, the discovery of an Indian village decimated by smallpox, a sharpshooter’s devastating annihilation of his prey, a young boy’s last memory of his mother. Vanderhaeghe links the hallowed colleges of Oxford and the pleasure houses of London to the treacherous Montana plains; and the rough trading posts of the Canadian wilderness to the heart of Indian folklore. At the novel’s centre is an unusual and moving love story. Guy Vanderhaeghe’s long-awaited new novel is his richest to date, an epic masterpiece that solidifies his place as one of Canada’s premier storytellers. About the Author Guy Vanderhaeghe was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan in 1951. He is the author of six books of fiction. His first two books were collections of short stories: Man Descending (1982), which won the Governor’s General’s Award, and the Faber Prize in the U.K., and The Trouble With Heroes (1983). My Present Age , a novel, was published in 1984 and was followed by Homesick in 1989. That novel was a co-winner of the City of Toronto Book Award. His third book of short stories was the highly praised Things As They Are? (1992). The Englishman’s Boy (1996) was a long-time national bestseller and won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and for Best Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for The Giller Prize, and the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the world’s largest monetary award for a single book. Acclaimed for his fiction, Vanderhaeghe has also written plays. I Had a Job I Liked. Once. was first produced in 1991, and won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama. His second play, Dancock’s Dance , was produced in 1995. He is currently completing a screenplay for The Englishman’s Boy. Guy Vanderhaeghe lives in Saskatoon, where he is a Visiting Professor of English at S.T.M. College. Info Desk iREWARDS Program About Our Company Affiliate Opportunities Careers Contact Us Corporate Sales Gift Certificates Privacy Policy Shipping Rates Store Locations Wish List chapters.indigo.ca: books Shopping Bag | Account Centre | Wish List | Help iREWARDS Program | Corporate Sales | Store Locations All Products Books DVD Video Gifts Books Advanced Search Search Tips About this Book From the Publisher About the Author Fiction Action Suspense Anthologies Classics Erotica Fairy Tales and Folklore Family Sagas Gay Ghost Graphic Novels Historical Horror Humorous Legal Lesbian Literary Medical Movie and Television Tie-Ins Religious Short Stories War Westerns Browse Books View all Categories . Books at Chapters and Chapters Bookstore Coles Bookstore • Chapters Indigo Book Store • Chapters Bookstore Locations • Chapters Indigo Online • Chapters In Montreal • Chapters Indigo Ca Coupons • Chapters Ca Coupon • Chapters In Montreal • Indigo Canada • Chapters Canada • Chapters Store Locations • Indigo Canada • Chapters Book Store Ottawa • Chapters Indigo Coupons • Canadian Jewellery Stores • Smiths Bookstore, Canada • Coles Bookstore • Chapters Victoria BC • Indigobooks • Chapters Indogo • Chapters Langley • Shop Canada • Coles, Canada • Indigo Chapters Ca • Chapters Books Vancouver • . For more used books and discount textbooks at Chapters Canada online bookstore, follow this link.