Summary of secondary sources

1. My first secondary source with the title Guy Vanderhaeghe is about my authors biography. He was born April 5, 1951, in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan. His dad was a rodeo cowboy and construction worker. His mother was a school teacher. He married Margaret Elizabeth Nagel. Guy has made a reputation for himself for one of the country’s best young writers based on his stories based on his stories of prairie life. He has one many medals and awards for most of his books like the Governor General's Award for Fiction, 1996, for The Englishman's Boy. As Guy grew up he had an interest in writing. As a teenager he gave it up because he did not want to be known as the brain. He went to the university of Saskatchewan and worked as an archivist. Guy was diagnosed with diabetes and it was a wake up call and he became more devoted into writing. He has writtem Man Descending, The Trouble with Heroes, Homesick, The Englishman’s boy, My present age. Guy likes his fiction and likes writing fiction novels. Once guy became to write his books he could never stop. It was what he wanted to do with his life and out events of his life and his ideas into novels. Guy had an obsession with writing and he has made many superior books.



2. My second secondary source with the title also Guy Vanderhaeghe is as well about my authors biography. I’m going to focus on the book that I am reading for this summary. The book that Vanderhaeghe wrote that secured him a position in the upper ranks of the Canadian novelists was his book, The Englishman’s boy. It was awarded the governor generals award and was nominated for the prestigious Giller prize. The Englishman’s boy combines both the story of a late nineteenth-century massacre of an encampment of Assiniboine by a group of white wolf hunters that was based on an actual event in Canadian history. The other of a 1920s Hollywood mogul's determination to re-narrate the details of the event in support of his megalomaniacal, and degradingly revisionist, goals. In the book Harry Vincent connects these historical threads. He is a writer and was hired by the mogul to find an infamous Indian fighter that night hold the historical truth to the slaughter. The Englishman’s boy is one of the best historical western novels.

3. My third secondary source with the title Narrative geography in Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Englishman's Boy is about all the different places and events in the novel. The book moves back and forth through different time periods. In 1873 in the Cypress hills there was a massacre, (based on a actual event in the Canadian west) and it is told by Shorty McAdoo who was a member of the marauding party. He is in Hollywood doing stunts for westerns. He tells this story to Harry Vincent who is a writer and is also in Hollywood. Harry writes a film about Shortys story about the Cypress Hills Massacre. In the last sentence of the first chapter "The stream of horses flowed north to Canada" it shows geography of where they are and where they are headed. Shorty was with the people who stole the horses and crossed the border into Canada with them, but 50 years later he crossed back to the U.S to tell the story. Another piece of geography is when Harry crosses the black iron bridge over the South Saskatchewan River into the states. Both Harry and Shorty cross the border dangerously for stasis, refuge, and truth. There is a lot of geography and history in this novel, The Englishman’s Boy.