The Whistling Season

The Whistling Season
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2006
Genre: American fiction
ISBN: 0151012377

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The saga of how a widow from Minneapolis and her brother--soon to become the new teacher in a tiny Montana community in 1909--change lives in unexpected ways has all the charm of old-school storytelling, from Dickens to Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The Bartender's Tale

The Bartender's Tale
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594631484

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A national bestseller, the story of “a boy’s last days of youth and a history his father can’t leave behind” (The Daily Beast). Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a venerable bar called The Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole and last refuge in the town of Gros Ventre, in northern Montana. Tom also has a son named Rusty, an “accident between the sheets” whose mother deserted them both years ago. The pair make an odd kind of family, with the bar their true home, but they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, that is, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives with gale force, in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. Is Francine, as Proxy claims, the unsuspected legacy of her and Tom’s past? Without a doubt she is an unsettling gust of the future, upending every certainty in Rusty’s life and generating a mist of passion and pretense that seems to obscure everyone’s vision but his own. The Bartender’s Tale wonderfully captures how the world becomes bigger and the past becomes more complex in the last moments of childhood.

Work Song

Work Song
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011-07-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594485208

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"[A] novel that best expresses the American spirit." –The Chicago Tribune “If America was a melting pot, Butte seemed to be its boiling point,” observes Morrie Morgan, the itinerant teacher and inveterate charmer who stole readers’ hearts in The Whistling Season. A decade later, he steps off the train and into the copper mining capital of the world in its jittery 1919 heyday. While the riches of “the Richest Hill on Earth” may elude him, once again a colorful cast of local characters seek him out. Before long, Morrie is caught up in the clash between the ironfisted Anaconda Mining Company, radical “outside agitators,” and the beleaguered miners. As tensions build aboveground and below, Morrie finds a unique way to give a voice to those who truly need one, and Ivan Doig proves yet again why he’s reigning king of Western fiction.

English Creek

English Creek
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0743271270

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The portrait of a time and a place -Montana in the 1930's -- is depicted through the McCaskill family's personal struggles.

The Eleventh Man

The Eleventh Man
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2009-09-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547350589

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After Pearl Harbor, the lives of eleven Montana college football teammates are changed forever in an “intensely suspenseful and moving” novel (Scott Turow). In the early 1940s, the starting lineup of Treasure State University’s football team are local heroes. But as America is pulled into World War II, they feel called to become heroes of another kind. Now, ten of them are scattered around the globe in the war’s lonely and dangerous theaters. The eleventh man, Ben Reinking, has been plucked from pilot training by a military propaganda machine. He is to chronicle the adventures of his teammates, man by man, for publication in small-town newspapers across the country like the one his father edits. Ready for action, Reinking chafes at the assignment—not knowing that it will bring him love from an unexpected quarter and test the law of averages, which holds that all but one of his teammates should come through the conflict unscathed . . .

Prairie Nocturne

Prairie Nocturne
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2003
Genre: African American men
ISBN: 0743201353

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From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and in New York during the Harlem Renaissance--drawing on the characters from Doig's most popular work.

The Whistling

The Whistling
Author: Rebecca Netley
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781405950244

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FEEL SHIVERS DOWN YOUR SPINE WITH THIS CHILLING AND GRIPPING GHOST STORY SET ON A FAR-FLUNG SCOTTISH ISLAND . . . 'Wonderfully atmospheric, genuinely eerie' GUARDIAN 'Gripping, chilling and very, very satisfying' DAILY MAIL 'A ghost story that kept me guessing' SUSAN STOKES-CHAPMAN 'Perfect for a cold winter's night' DAILY MIRROR 'It will chill you to the bone' ANITA FRANK 'If you're looking for a chilling tale as we head towards Halloween, you've found it' HEAT _________ When Elspeth arrives on a remote Scottish island to become nanny to a young child, she hopes to bond with her. Until she learns that, for reasons no one will explain, Mary has not spoken for months. And the girl's silence is not the only mystery. Hypnotic lullabies drift down empty corridors. Strange dolls appear in abandoned rooms. And as the nights draw in, darker questions arise . . . What happened to Mary's late twin, William? Why did their previous nanny disappear so suddenly? And is the whistling Elspeth hears at night just the storm outside? Or is somebody coming for her . . . ? _________ *Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize* READERS ARE CHILLED BY THE WHISTLING 'I was sucked in from page one and read it in one fell swoop' 5* READER REVIEW 'A wicked twist . . . brilliant, scary, clever. Horror writing at its best' 5* READER REVIEW 'A great story with moments of heart-grabbing terror, beautifully written' 5* READER REVIEW

The Whistling Season

The Whistling Season
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780156031646

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Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.

Last Bus to Wisdom

Last Bus to Wisdom
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2016-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110198256X

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Named a Best Book of the Year by the Seattle Times and Kirkus Review The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Ivan Doig’s beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old’s imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for “female trouble” in the summer of 1951, all she can think to do is to ship Donal off to her sister in faraway Manitowoc, Wisconsin. There Donal is in for a rude surprise: Aunt Kate–bossy, opinionated, argumentative, and tyrannical—is nothing like her sister. She henpecks her good-natured husband, Herman the German, and Donal can’t seem to get on her good side either. After one contretemps too many, Kate packs him back to the authorities in Montana on the next Greyhound. But as it turns out, Donal isn’t traveling solo: Herman the German has decided to fly the coop with him. In the immortal American tradition, the pair light out for the territory together, meeting a classic Doigian ensemble of characters and having rollicking misadventures along the way. Charming, wise, and slyly funny, Last Bus to Wisdom is a last sweet gift from a writer whose books have bestowed untold pleasure on countless readers.

Dancing at the Rascal Fair

Dancing at the Rascal Fair
Author: Ivan Doig
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439124949

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The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. Ivan Doig's supple tale of landseekers unfolds into a fateful contest of the heart between Anna Ramsay and Angus McCaskill, walled apart by their obligations as they and their stormy kith and kin vie to tame the brutal, beautiful Two Medicine country.