Quotes by Guy Vanderhaeghe

About Guy Vanderhaeghe:

Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, The Englishman's Boy, The Last Crossing, and A Good Man set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won two Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection, Man Descending, in 1982 and another for his novel, The Englishman's Boy, in 1996.
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Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

She'd whisper to me to take my tiny piece of happiness, hold its honey in my mouth until it melts away.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Author Bio

  • NameGuy Vanderhaeghe
  • DescriptionCanadian writer
  • BornApril 5, 1951
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionNovelist
  • WorksMan Descending
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Order Of Canada; Saskatchewan Order Of Merit; Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize