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"[Vanderhaeghe is] the best all-round novelist at work in Canada today. . . A Good Man is the kind of impeccably crafted, Dickensian charmer we have come to expect from Vanderhaeghe. . . . Remarkable . . . Deeply satisfying . . . Vanderhaeghe's descriptions of the natural world [are]…
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A sweeping, epic but intimate, stay-up-late story of the bitter and inexorable end of the wild west. Told with powerful subtlety by an author whose lyrical prose delivers immersive settings and complex, three-dimensional characters, this one worked for me on every level.
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