Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe. Published by McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, ON., an Emblem Edition, 2000. Printed in Canada. Very Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover wear and a single black line on bottom edge. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.75 x 9.25 inch. 272 pages. MAN DESCENDING, A Short Story Collection by Guy Vanderhaeghe, are "stunningly good stories, The action and dialogue are vivid, authentic and often hilarious..." -Reviewed by the Winnipeg Free Press. 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. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: GUY VANDERHAEGHE was born in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan, in 1951. Among the many 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. ISBN: 9780177086847 GC&C Stock #1729
