Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
Bestselling author Guy Vanderhaeghe’s new book of fiction is both timely and timeless and showcases his supreme talent as a storyteller and poignant observer of the human condition.
Among these nine addictive and resonant stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actor’s penchant for hiding behind a role, on and off stage, is tested to the limits and what he comes to discover finally places him face to face with the truth. With his mother hospitalized for a nervous condition and his father away on long work stints, a boy…
$21.00
February 23, 2016
GUY VANDERHAEGHE was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, in 1951. His previous fiction includes A Good Man, The Last Crossing, The Englishman's Boy, Things as They Are (stories), Homesick, My Present Age, Man Descending (stories), and Daddy Lenin and Other Stories. His most recent novel, August Into Winter, received the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and the Glengarry Book Award. Among the other awards he has received are the Governor General's Awards (three times); and, for his body of work, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellowship, the Writers' Trust Timothy Findley Award, and the Harbourfront Literary Prize. He has received many honours including the Order of Canada.
August Into Winter
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Tomorrow-Tamer
Margaret Laurence
St. Urbain's Horseman
Mordecai Richler
Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Frontier Trilogy
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Englishman's Boy
Guy Vanderhaeghe
The Last Crossing
Guy Vanderhaeghe
A Good Man
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Things As They Are
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Man Descending
Guy Vanderhaeghe
My Present Age
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Homesick
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
Coexistence
Billy-Ray Belcourt
Dance of the Happy Shades
Alice Munro
Death by a Thousand Cuts
Shashi Bhat
Normal Rules Don't Apply
Kate Atkinson
Last Woman
Carleigh Baker
Old Babes in the Wood
Margaret Atwood
The Goodbye Cat
Hiro Arikawa, Translated by Philip Gabriel
Uncertain Kin
Janice Lynn Mather
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny
Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
Stray Dogs
Rawi Hage