The Englishman's Boy
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The Englishman's Boy | |
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Author | Guy Vanderhaeghe |
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Country | Canada |
Language | English |
Subject(s) | Language Arts |
Genre(s) | historical fiction |
Publisher | McClelland & Stewart Inc. |
Publication date | 1996 |
Media type | Cloth Edition and Paperback |
Pages | 333 |
ISBN | ISBN 0-7710-8693-8 (bound) |
The Englishman's Boy | |
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Genre | miniseries |
Running time | 240 minutes |
Written by | Guy Vanderhaeghe (writer and screenplay) |
Directed by | John N. Smith |
Produced by | Kevin DeWalt (executive producer) Janine Stener (associate producer) |
Starring | Bob Hoskins Nicholas Campbell Michael Therriault R. H. Thomson Michael Eisner |
Music by | Rob Bryanton Todd Bryanton |
Country of origin | Canada |
Language | English |
Original channel | CBC |
Release date(s) | March 2, 2008 (part 1) March 9, 2008 (part 2) |
No. of episodes | 2 |
IMDb profile |
The Englishman's Boy is a novel by Guy Vanderhaeghe, published in 1996 by McClelland and Stewart. It won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction in 1996, and was a nominee for the Giller Prize. It deals with the events of the Cypress Hills Massacre and is set in nineteenth century Montana and Saskatchewan.
On March 2nd, 2008, The Englishman's Boy premiered as a made for TV movie on CBC.
Preceded by Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl |
Governor General's Award for English language fiction recipient 1996 |
Succeeded by Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter |