Things as They Are?

✍ Scribed by Guy Vanderhaeghe

• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart;Emblem Editions
• Year: 1992;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

By The Award-Winning Author Of The Last Crossing And The Englishmans Boy

Deftly layered, humane, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos and comedy of the human condition. Following the death of his domineering father, a middle-aged man tries to uncover a truth about their sometimes difficult relationship. When a grade-six teacher tyrannizes a student without apparent reason, the boy learns an unexpected lesson and his young life is changed irrevocably. An elderly widow falls prey to a con artist, revealing what we are capable of sacrificing to appease what we dread the most. A twelve-year-old boy is shunted off to his grandmothers farm and becomes part of an adult world he scarcely understands. A group of high-school students play on a classmates self-delusions and set up what promises to be the most loaded boxing match ever staged. Whether writing from the point of view of a child, an adolescent, or a man in his seventies, Guy Vanderhaeghe takes us into the lives of his characters with razor-sharp insights laced with gentle humour.

Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780771086960