81. Sidekick: Adventures Of A Library Card - My Present Age guy vanderhaeghe s My Present Age. vanderhaeghe, guy. My Present Age. Toronto Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd. 1984. Did you read My Present Age and love it? http://www.sidekickmagazine.com/nov00/books.html

Header("books"); SideBar1("article"); SideBar2("article"); Guy Vanderhaeghe's My Present Age In My Present Age , Saskatchewan native Guy Vanderhaeghe introduces us to Ed, a guy I can't decide if I like or hate. Vanderhaeghe's Ed, in a first person narrative, tells his tale of woe using detailed remembrances from his past to help his audience understand his present. The effect is a darkly comic tale of a man struggling to survive the modern world while searching for his estranged wife. Meet Ed a slovenly, fat, unemployed thirty-something male living life on the edge of madness. Ed spends all 240 pages of this novel searching for his wife Victoria, who does not want to be found (especially by Ed). He finds her in the end, but is no closer to having her back than when I began the first page. Ed, a former school teacher, has recently quit his job selling china for Eatons. Good thing he quit too, as he was just about to be fired, for when he wasn't hiding in the back room to avoid serving his customers, he was serving them rudely in a phony English accent ("Madam, I shall repeat what I told you scant days ago. We do not have a gravy boat in the particular pattern you require. That pattern, I should hazard to say, was discontinued approximately the time General Gordon was slain at Khartoum. Surely you recall that tragedy? It was in all the papers, I believe. (p57) This is one of the reasons I like Ed. Now unemployed, Ed sits at home in his one-bedroom apartment pining for Victoria while living off of his life insurance.

82. Talk Literature: Re: Canadian Author Guy Vanderhaeghe Re Canadian author guy vanderhaeghe Posted by Anna van Gelderen on 30/3/2004, 02519, in reply to Canadian author guy vanderhaeghe 195.85.146.131. http://members4.boardhost.com/readliterature/msg/11341.html

Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Posted by Anna van Gelderen on , in reply to " Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Previous Message : Anna, can you identify the origin of his last name? It : gives me hope. One day my grandchildren can become : first-class authors too, with a name like ours (which : is easier to pronounce than Vanderhaeghe). : Lale The name is Dutch, but the spelling is definitely Flemish (in the Netherlands the name would be written van der Hage ). So the Guy (or his ancestors) must be Belgian. Vanderhaeghe is not that difficult to pronounce, only the -gh- sound is a bit of a problem for most foreigners. But if you can say the -ch in Scottish loch properly, with the right amount of rasping in your throat, you are almost there. The a is pronounced as in French, the e (in this case) as the e in French le and the ae simply as a long a . See, it's a pièce de cake. Anybody can become an author with a name like that. Anna PS I purchased The Englishman's Boy recently. Responses: Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe len. Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Anna van Gelderen Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Lale Post a Response Your name: Your e-mail address: Subject: Message: Spell Check Previous Message : Previous Message : Anna, can you identify the origin of his last name? It : gives me hope. One day my grandchildren can become : first-class authors too, with a name like ours (which : is easier to pronounce than Vanderhaeghe). : Lale : : The name is Dutch, but the spelling is definitely : Flemish (in the Netherlands the name would be written : van der Hage ). So the Guy (or his ancestors) must be : Belgian. : Vanderhaeghe is not that difficult to pronounce, only : the -gh- sound is a bit of a problem for most : foreigners. But if you can say the -ch in Scottish : loch properly, with the right amount of rasping in : your throat, you are almost there. The a is : pronounced as in French, the e (in this case) as the : e in French le and the ae simply as a long a . : See, it's a pièce de cake. Anybody can become an author : with a name like that. : Anna : PS I purchased The Englishman's Boy recently. : : :

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Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Posted by Lale on I just started reading Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last Crossing and it promises to be even better than the other book of his, The Englishman's Boy I had read and loved 5 years ago. I recommend this author to you all, he is brilliant, I tell you, remember where you've heard of him first. Anna, can you identify the origin of his last name? It gives me hope. One day my grandchildren can become first-class authors too, with a name like ours (which is easier to pronounce than Vanderhaeghe). Lale Responses: Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Anna van Gelderen Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe len. Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Anna van Gelderen Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Lale Re: Canadian author Guy Vanderhaeghe Lale Post a Response Your name: Your e-mail address: Subject: Message: Spell Check Previous Message : I just started reading Guy Vanderhaeghe's The Last : Crossing and it promises to be even better than the : other book of his, The Englishman's Boy I had read : and loved 5 years ago. I recommend this author to you : all, he is brilliant, I tell you, remember where you've : heard of him first. : Anna, can you identify the origin of his last name? It : gives me hope. One day my grandchildren can become : first-class authors too, with a name like ours (which : is easier to pronounce than Vanderhaeghe). : Lale : : Optional Image URL: Notify me by e-mail of all message replies.

84. Government Relations And Aboriginal Affairs | Office Of Protocol And Honours guy vanderhaeghe, SOM guy vanderhaeghe is recognized as one of Saskatchewan s most gifted and acclaimed writers. He was born and http://www.graa.gov.sk.ca/Protocol/Honours/SOM_vanderhaeghe.htm

Location: Home Office of Protocol and Honours Honours and Awards Sask. Order of Merit ... 2003 Recipients Government of Saskatchewan Updated: July 14, 2003 Contact the webmaster Guy Vanderhaeghe, S.O.M. Guy Vanderhaeghe is recognized as one of Saskatchewan's most gifted and acclaimed writers. He was born and grew up in Esterhazy, attended the University of Saskatchewan and has made Saskatoon his home. At 32, Mr. Vanderhaeghe won the 1982 Governor General's award for fiction for his first book, Man Descending , a collection of short stories. His first play, I Had a Job I Liked. Once , was awarded the 1993 Canadian Authors Association prize for the best drama published. His novel, The Englishman's Boy , published in 1996, won Mr. Vanderhaeghe his second Governor General's Award. This novel was also short-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the largest and most international prize of its kind, which involves libraries from all corners of the globe, and is open to books written in any language.

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87. Catharton Book Reviews - Dancock's Dance (1996) (play) By Guy Vanderhaeghe Catharton Book Reviews « Dancock s Dance (1996) (play) by guy vanderhaeghe ». Poster, Book Dancock s Dance (1996) (play) by guy vanderhaeghe (Viewed 51 times). http://www.catharton.net/cgi-local/bookreviews/YaBB.cgi?board=reviewsd;action=di

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