A Good Man
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Multi-award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe’s eagerly awaited new novel is a dazzling follow up to his bestselling The Englishman’s Boy and The Last Crossing (a Canada Reads winner!).
A Good Man culminates what could be thought of as a trilogy of books set in the late nineteenth-century Canadian and American West, and it is a masterpiece. Vanderhaeghe skilfully weaves a rich tapestry of history with the turns of fortune of his most vividly and compellingly drawn cast of characters yet. Vanderhaeghe entwines breathtaking, intriguing, and richly described narratives that contain a compelling love story, a tale of revenge and violence, a spectacular battle scene, the story of an incident in Welsely’s past that threatens his relationship with Ada, and much, much more. While raising moral questions, this novel weaves the historical with the personal and stands as Vanderhaeghe’s most accomplished and brilliant novel to date.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
Vanderhaeghe’s novel, set in the American and Canadian West in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, is the vividly imagined and viscerally narrated story of early nationhood as told through the lives of his remarkable characters, both imagined and historical.
A Good Man is a masterful telling of frontier life, with rich descriptions and characters and a compelling storyline.