{"product_id":"a-good-man-paperback","title":"A Good Man - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuy Vanderhaeghe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSusan Avery\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Vanderhaeghe is] the best all-round novelist at work in Canada today. . . \u003ci\u003eA Good Man \u003c\/i\u003eis 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] often as striking as Cormac McCarthy's. . . . A towering achievement worthy of celebration as loud as our humble voices can declare.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBest-selling author Guy Vanderhaeghe's final installment in his frontier trilogy is at once a riveting account of personal and historic revenge, and the endearing story of an unlikely love affair. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWesley Case, a former soldier and the son of a Canadian lumber baron, sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the United States to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch, and where he begins work as a liaison between the American and Canadian militaries in an effort to contain the Native Americans' unresolved anger in the wake of the Civil War. Amid the brutal violence that erupts between the Sioux warriors and U.S. forces, Case's plan for a quiet ranch life is further compromised by an unexpected dilemma: he falls in love with the beautiful, outspoken, and recently widowed Ada Tarr. It's a budding romance that soon inflames the jealousy of Ada's quiet and deeply disturbed admirer, Michael Dunne. When the American government unleashes its final assault on the Indians, Dunne commences his own vicious plan for vengeance in one last feverish attempt to claim Ada as his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVanderhaeghe expertly weaves a gritty account of the end of the Wild West with an intimate tale of love, retribution, and rebirth. Beautifully imagined and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eA Good Man\u003c\/i\u003e is Vanderhaeghe's triumphant conclusion to his venerated turn-of-the-century epic.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuy Vanderhaeghe was born in Saskatchewan in 1951. He is the author of six books of fiction, including \"The Englishman's Boy,\" which won the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction and for Best Book of the Year; and the bestseller, \"The Last Crossing,\" a Book Sense 76 Selection and winner of Canada Reads 2004 and the CBA Libris Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 480\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.4 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761377607968,"sku":"9780802120809","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6eedb4a7fa23d7fb8010b287a6d193d9.webp?v=1780205970","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-good-man-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}